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	<title>Daniel Michaeli: Asia Ruminations &#187; Iran</title>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Approach to Iran (Radio Interview)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Michaeli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Media: Voice of America.
Subjects: Chinese interests in the Middle East, the China-Iran economic relationship, Iran, Iran&#8217;s nuclear program, and differing Chinese and U.S. foreign policy priorities.
Length: 2:43.

This segment on China&#8217;s interests in Iran, including the energy trading relationship, includes interviews with Erica Downs of the Brookings Institution and myself.


Note: If you have trouble with the embedded MP3 file above, you can open or download the interview directly here. See the written report on Voice of America&#8217;s web site here.
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		<title>Should We Engage China?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Michaeli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve heard many people over the past few weeks question whether we should continue engaging with China as we have&#8211;or, even more starkly, whether we should engage with China at all.
The argument goes something like this: Engagement was supposed to produce a different kind of China than we&#8217;re seeing today, one that shares U.S. interests. Because the Chinese government is behaving increasingly aggressively against the &#8220;status quo&#8221; and has been moving backwards on political and economic reforms, engagement has failed and we need another policy.
I understand the frustration underlying this ...]]></description>
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		<title>Russia and Iran Sanctions</title>
		<link>http://www.asiaruminations.com/2009/10/21/russia-and-iran-sanctions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Michaeli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In just a few years&#8217; time, Iran&#8217;s tally of uranium enrichment centrifuges has grown 35 times from 164 to 6,000. Along the way, the intransigence of Iran&#8217;s president&#8211;which drew international condemnation, caused western companies to pull out of ventures in Iran, and led the International Atomic Energy Agency to send Iran&#8217;s nuclear program to the UN Security Council&#8211;has fueled an unprecedented amount of internal instability within the Islamic Republic.
Russia has appeared wary of sanctions, but Medvedev&#8217;s remarks at the G-20 summit suggest the distinct possibility of a Russian move towards ...]]></description>
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