Transcript
Mr. Bush: Ladies and gentlemen, our featured speaker, Dr. Liz Economy, is here, so I think we should go ahead and get going.
Thank you again for coming. This is a series of events that we're having relating to issues in China and U.S.-China and China's international relations. Today the focus is the environment, and we're very pleased to have two leading experts on that subject from two different dimensions.
First, my colleague Nigel Purvis will talk about the international dimension of China's environmental problems and how it is seeking to address those. Then once Liz has had a chance to eat, she will follow-up. She is the C.V. Starr Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and director of Asian studies. She had the good sense a number of years ago to focus on the environment as a key indicator of where China was going in terms of balancing development and welfare, and she's doing very well in that and we're very pleased to have her.
So without further ado, I invite Nigel to come up and we'll get going.
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