Ken Lieberthal on Washington's Major China Challenges

Kenneth G. Lieberthal is one of America’s leading authorities on China’s political system, including its elite politics and its foreign policy. Lieberthal taught for decades at the University of Michigan. He served in the Clinton administration as special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for Asia on the U.S. National Security Council. He has also served as an advisor to various branches of the U.S. federal government, and from 2009 to 2012 served a

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