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Susan Shirk Comments on Hu, Obama Meetings

Will U.S.-China Talks Reset Tone in a Competitive Relationship?

01/19/2011
Jeffrey Brown, PBS Newshour

Jeffrey Brown examines the undertones of the meetings between Presidents Hu and Obama with Susan Shirk of the University of California's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, George Washington University's David Shambaugh and Minxin Pei of Claremont McKenna College.

JEFFREY BROWN: Some views now on today's meeting and the state of play between the two countries. Susan Shirk was deputy assistant secretary of state for China policy in the Clinton administration. She's now director of the University of California's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Minxin Pei is professor of government and director of international and strategic studies at Claremont McKenna College. And David Shambaugh is director of the China Policy Program at George Washington University. He just returned from a 14-month research sabbatical in China.

Susan Shirk, I will start with you first. What -- what, if anything, jumps out at you about today's meeting?

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Susan Shirk is director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and Ho Miu Lam professor of China and Pacific Relations at IR/PS.

She founded in 1993 and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial “track-two” forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, and the Koreas.

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