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The Beijing Summer Games begin Friday. Diane and a panel of experts discuss what the Chinese government hopes gain from hosting one of sports biggest spectacles.
Minxin Pei, senior associate and director of the China program 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.
The author of a debut novel imagines women in modern-day Salem, Massachusetts, who can tell the future by ‘reading’ pieces of lace and explains how her self-published story became the subject of a multi-million dollar bidding war.
Brunonia Barry, author and one of the founding members of the Portland Stage Company.
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