the world s first animal only airport terminal is under construction equipped with a swimming pool flat screen tvs, spa and grooming quarters. is it in china, the united arab emirates taj ek stan or united states. this week s book of the week is thomas christiansen s the china challenge, shaping the choices of a rising power. many books are written about china these days. this is a standout. christiansen is a widely respected scholar who served as the bush administration s expert on china. he has combined these perspectives to give us a balanced, informative and highly intelligent guide to dealing with china. now for the last look, in 2000 at the largest ever gathering of its kind world
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offspring. until we know better how to meet the physical and psychological needs of elephants in captivity, to my mind mammoth de-extinction at least along this particular route is a no-go. you call this de-extinction. you re talking aboutin excontinuityex unextincting a species. what would you do along these lines? one would have to think carefully. the community of people who is thinking about de-extinction brought up several different species that are candidates, a passenger pigeon, went extinct in north america about 100 years ago, this bird is a candidate to be resurrected using this technology. species like the file seen that went extinct in australia as a consequence of a massive predator eradication program founded on principles we know now probably aren t true. these animals probably weren t predators. if we could bring them back and repopulate them, they might be welcome in the society. what s the point of this? to be very honest and blunt. you talk in the book about ec
seriously damaged mutual trust and warned that these missions will likely cause maritime and airborne incidents. days later china began a ten-day drill in the south china sea it said would improve its defense combat capacity. what to make of these tensions? is an altercation in the offing and what about china s economy in the wake of its recent stock market crash. to talk about all this i asked two great china experts to join me. kevin rudd is the former prime minister of australia, now the president of the asia society policy institute. thomas christiansen is the former deputy assistant secretary of state for east asia and pacific affairs, now professor at princeton and author of a new book the china challenge. kevin, when you listen to this jostling, what do you think is going on beneath it? what s the underlying dynamic here and is it dangerous between china and the united states in
airborne incidents. days later china began a ten-day drill in the south china sea it said would improve its defense combat capacity. what to make of these tensions? is an altercation in the offing and what about china s economy in the wake of its recent stock market crash. to talk about all this, i asked two great china experts to join me. kevin rudd is the former prime minister of australia, now the president of the asia society policy institute. thomas christiansen is the former deputy assistant secretary of state for east asia and pacific affairs, now professor at princeton and author of a new book the china challenge. kevin, when you listen to this jostling, what do you think is going on beneath it? what s the underlying dynamic here and is it dangerous between china and the united states in general? i think the underlying