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Transcript: Analysis: Chinese officials eager to reassure the world they are not a threat
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MADELEINE BRAND
NPR Special
05-13-2004
Analysis: Chinese officials eager to reassure the world they are not a threat
Host: MADELEINE BRAND
Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
MADELEINE BRAND, host:
This is DAY TO DAY from NPR News. I'm Madeleine Brand.
China has to be one of the few nations on earth trying to cool its rapid economic growth. The speed and scale of that growth has given China considerably more diplomatic muscle, and the Chinese are eager to reassure the world that they are not a threat. But the inauguration next week of a pro-independence president in Taiwan for a second term in office could impede China's hopes of a peaceful emergence as a new superpower. NPR's Rob Gifford reports from ...