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Obama in China. Healthcare crunch time in the Senate. And the mammogram controversy rages on. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.
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President Obama makes his first trip to Asia. We’ll look at his agenda, and the rising power of the East.
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Asian countries pour money and resources into higher education, while American universities go begging. We’ll ask former MIT president Charles Vest, and more, where this goes.
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Will China be the world’s clean-energy superpower? We’ll look at “Green China,” and whether the U.S. is losing the clean-tech race.
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Is the global economic crisis derailing globalization? Should it? As the G-20 sits down in Pittsburgh, we’ll talk tires, chickens, and trade.
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A true story of gangs, human smuggling, and the American dream in New York’s Chinatown. We’ll talk with the author of “The Snakehead.”
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Obama in Egypt. GM in bankruptcy. And a French airliner goes down. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.
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In today’s first hour, James Fallows noted that the Chinese government is avoiding any mention of the 20th anniversary, on June 4, of the Tiananmen Square massacre. The event is effectively being erased from collective memory.
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We’ll look at America’s banker — China — and what Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is bringing home from Beijing.
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A year ago this month, On Point went to Shanghai. And what a year it’s been. We’ll turn our microphones back to China, for the Chinese view now.
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They’re calling it “GhostNet” — a vast cyber-spying network, suspected to be run from China. We talk with the computer sleuths who uncovered it, and ask them how they did it.
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We talk with Jan Wong about her search for the woman she betrayed during China’s Cultural Revolution — and what she found.
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The Atlantic’s James Fallows is back from China as America transfers power to a new president. We’ll ask how it all looks to the China maven.
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With falling exports, closing factories, and fear of social upheaval, we’ll look at what China does now, with top observers in Shanghai and Beijing.
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Crunch time on Tibet. China smacks down autonomy. Tibetans talk of independence. The Dalai Lama says be careful. We’ll look into the Himalayas.
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The women behind much of the word economy. We look inside the lives of China’s factory girls.
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From the athletes, to media coverage, to China’s image, we’ll take stock of what we’ve seen in Beijing.
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China’s superstar pianist Lang Lang is 26 years old, and the face of a new China. He had a big role in the Olympic opening ceremonies, and he joins us from Beijing.
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We take one last look at the backstreets of old Beijing, with an American who lived there, before the Olympics plow their memory under.
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