Zhao offers a quick history of China's foreign policy since 1949 and then offers a provocative assessment of it today.
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Air Quality at the 2008 Beijing Olympics

Comparing this summer's air in Beijing with that in Los Angeles, New York, and London
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, "Hearing: China's Energy Policies and Their Environmental Impacts," August 13, 2008
This hearing was conducted by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on August 13, 2008. The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission was created by the U.S. Congress in 2000 to monitor, investigate, and submit to Congress an annual report on the national security implications of the economic relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China.
U.S. Energy Information Administration, “Country Analysis Briefs: Taiwan,” August 2008
Taiwan does not have substantial domestic energy resources and must import the vast majority of its needs.
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, "Hearing: Chinese Seafood: Safety and Trade Issues," April 24-25, 2008
This hearing was conducted by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on April 24-25, 2008. The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission was created by the U.S. Congress in 2000 to monitor, investigate, and submit to Congress an annual report on the national security implications of the economic relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China.
Goldstein receives ACLS support for work on recycling
Committee on Scholarly Communication with China program underwrites fieldwork in China.
State Council, “China’s Energy Conditions and Policies,” Dec. 26, 2007
New course: China and the World

Professor Carolyn Cartier will offer East Asian Studies 160gm, a new interdisciplinary course in spring 2008.
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Join us for a book talk with Suisheng Zhao on how Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Xi Jinping each conceived and executed radically different approaches to China's relations with others.