Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 04/2009

Obama, Hillary Clinton, and China: Be Strategic, Be Green

Liu Xuecheng, Robert Oxnam

February 2009

EastWest Institute

Abstract

As U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leaves for Asia, the EastWest Institute is releasing the report of two prominent experts-China's Xuecheng Liu and America's Robert Oxnam-on next steps for the Obama administration on China. Both authors single out energy and climate change as an important new area of collaboration.