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More than one hundred fifty people have died as ethnic tensions rise in western China. A panel joins Diane to discuss what's behind the violence and the challenge it presents to China's leadership.
Shai Oster, correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and The Wall Street Journal Asia
John Pomfret, editor, Washington Post's Outlook section and author of "Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China"
Cheng Li, senior fellow and research director at the Brookings Institution's John L. Thornton China Center, a director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and the author of "China's Changing Political Landscape."
Nury Turkel, attorney; past president, the Uyghur American Association
Baodong Wang, spokesman and press counselor for the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C.
A reporter embeds with a Virginia National Guard unit as it heads to Iraq. He offers an inside account of the challenges citizen-soldiers face preparing for war, facing combat and returning to civilian life.
Christian Davenport, reporter for the "Washington Post."
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