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Steve Clemons directs the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation and is also a Senior Fellow at New America, and previously served as Executive Vice President. Previously, Mr. Clemons served for seven years as Executive Director of the Japan America Society of Southern California, and co-founded with Chalmers Johnson the Japan Policy Research Institute, of which he is still Director. Steve Clemons writes frequently on matters of foreign policy, defense, and international economic policy. His work has appeared in many of the major leading op-ed pages, journals, and magazines around the world. He is the publisher of the popular political blog The Washington Note.

Dr. Perrry Link was formerly a professor of east Asian studies at Princeton University and currently holds the Chancellorial Chair for Innovative Teaching across Disciplines at the University of California, Riverside, as well as being a professor of camparitive Literature and Foreign Languages at UCR. Dr. Link is known as one of the Western world's foremost experts on China, its langage, culture and people. While at princeton, he edited the "Tiananmen Papers," with Columbia University's Andrew Nathan, a collection of documents leaked by a high-level Chinese official that helped chronicle the events that led up to and followed the pro-reform student protests in June 1989. He has translated many Chinese stories, writings and poems into English. In 1996, China blacklisted Link, and has has been denied entrance ever since. Dr. Link has authored a number of books, including "Evening Chats in Beijing," "The Uses of Literature: Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System" and "Banyan: Notes of a Semi-Foreigner." He joins us from his hom in Riverside

Dr. Frank Schaeffer is a bestselling author of fiction and nonfiction, and a documentary and feature film director. He is the son of the late evangelist Francis Schaeffer. By the time he was nineteen, Frank Schaeffer s parents, Francis and Edith Schaeffer, had achieved global fame as bestselling evangelical authors and speakers, and Frank had joined his father on the evangelical circuit. He would go on to speak before thousands in arenas around America, publish his own evangelical bestseller, and work with such figures as Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Dr. James Dobson. But all the while Schaeffer felt increasingly alienated, precipitating a crisis of faith that would ultimately lead to his departure even if it meant losing everything. He has written several internationally acclaimed novels depicting life in a strict, fundamentalist household including Portofino, Zermatt, and Saving Grandma. Mr. Schaeffer is also the author of the nonfiction book "Crazy for God." Jeff Sharlet has described "Crazy for God" as "a brilliant book, a portrait of fundamentalism painted in broad strokes with streaks of nuance, the twinned coming-of-age story of Frank and the Christian right. But this story moves in more than one direction: both coming-of-age narratives are pulled against the current by the tragedy of Francis Schaeffer, a man who let his children, biological and ideological, guide him down a path from which he'd spent his whole life struggling to get off. previous programs...

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