PrintAssignment: China - Reporting on China from Nixon to Now
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Event audio: The U.S.-China Institute at the University of Southern California has produced a new documentary film, Assignment: China – The Week that Changed the World. Written and narrated by Mike Chinoy, formerly CNN’s senior Asia correspondent and Beijing bureau chief, the film uses previously unreleased footage and interviews with the reporters and officials who accompanied President Richard Nixon to tell the behind-the-scenes story of the media coverage of the trip that changed the course of U.S.-China relations. The United States Institute of Peace and the State Department’s East Asian and Pacific Affairs Bureau hosted a screening of Assignment: China, followed by a conversation featuring some of those who traveled to China with Nixon.
- Length: 51:05 minutes (20.46 MB)
- Format: Stereo 44kHz 56Kbps (CBR)
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Opening
- Richard Solomon, Welcoming Remarks
President, United States Institute of Peace - Kurt Campbell, Remarks
Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State
Screening of Assignment: China - The Week that Changed the World
- Mike Chinoy, Introduction
Senior Fellow, U.S.-China Institute, University of Southern California
Former CNN senior Asia correspondent
Panel Discussion
- Dwight Chapin, Panelist
Former appointments secretary for President Nixon - Bernard Kalb, Panelist
Former New York Times/CBS News/NBC News correspondent - Stanley Karnow, Panelist
Former Washington Post Asia Hong Kong correspondent - Robert Keatley, Panelist
Former correspondent, Wall Street Journal, Editor, Asian Wall St. Journal, Editor South China Morning Post - Tara Sonenshine, Moderator
Executive Vice President, United States Institute of Peace
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