This week on Sinica, Kaiser Kuo and David Moser are joined by Deborah Seligsohn, former science counselor for the US Embassy in Beijing and currently a doctoral candidate at UCSD, where she studies environmental governance in China. With more than 20 years of China experience, Deborah is one of the most knowledgeable people in the world on the question of China's policy response to questions of air pollution and climate change, which is why we are delighted to have her on the show.Like Sinica? Don't forget that you can subscribe to our iTunes podcast feed by using our custom RSS feed. And please feel free to download this show as a standalone mp3 file and share with anyone you think might also like hearing the show. Thanks!
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said on January 8, 2016
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