Chen Guangcheng and U.S.-China Relations

Michael Krasny

May 3, 2012 at

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High-level talks in Beijing between the United States and China this week have been overwhelmed by the dramatic and continually shifting story of Chen Guangcheng. The blind dissident who escaped to a U.S. Embassy is no longer in U.S. custody. But he remains at the center of a diplomatic brouhaha – and his story is causing tension between two countries that already struggle to see eye-to-eye.

What’s the truth surrounding Chen Guangcheng? How will his situation affect the bilateral conversation? And what is the current state of U.S.-China relations?

More: Report: Chinese Activist Left Embassy Because His Wife’s Life Was Threatened – from NPR

Guests:

Clayton Dube, executive director of the U.S.-China Institute at the University of Southern California

Orville Schell, director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York City

Helen Wang, author of "The Chinese Dream"

Jonathan Pollack, senior fellow with the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution and former professor and chairman of the Asia-Pacific Studies Group at the Naval War College

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