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A look at China's influence in trouble spots like Burma and Sudan, how it chooses to wield it, and the international pressures it faces as the Beijing Olympics near.
Dan Blumenthal, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute; former senior director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia in the Secretary of Defense's Office of International Security Affairs
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
Drew Thompson, Director of China Studies and Starr Senior Fellow at the Nixon Center
Minky Worden, media relations director, Human Rights Watch; editor of the forthcoming book, "China's Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges"
Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of launch of Sputnik I and the beginning of the cold war space race. An historian describes how the man behind Nazi Germany's V-1 and V-2 rockets eventually led the American program to bring the U.S. up to par with the Soviet Union in space exploration.
Michael Nuefeld, Chair of the Space History Division of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum and author of "The Rocket and the Reich."
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