Guests

• Minxin Pei Professor of government, Claremont McKenna College; adjunct senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
• Jeffrey A. Bader Director of the John L. Thornton China Center, and senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution; former director for Asian Affairs and the National Security Council and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs
• Philip Pan Foreign correspondent and former Beijing bureau chief for the Washington Post. He is the author of the recently released Out of 'Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China.'
• John Hoberman Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He's the author of the July/August Foreign Policy article "Think Again: The Olympics"
• Melinda Liu Newsweek Beijing Bureau Chief.