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10:00China and the Olympics

At the Beijing Olympic games, China hoped to showcase the modern face of its rising power. Instead it's faced with a potential public relations nightmare. China, human rights, and the latest efforts to harness the symbolism of the Olympics.

Guests

Cheng Li, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution's John L. Thornton China Center; professor of government, Hamilton College, a director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations

John Tkacik, senior research fellow, Asian Studies, The Heritage Foundation

Richard Pound, member, International Olympic Committee

Joan Chen, actor, director

11:00Douglas Feith, "War and Decision" (Harper)

Five years after the fall of Baghdad, the former Pentagon official talks about the decision to invade Iraq in 2003, who was responsible for the faulty intelligence that Saddam Hussein's regime possessed WMDs and what the inter-agency fighting that he says stymied post-war planning.

Guests

Douglas Feith,

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