May.24 — Susan Shirk, a former deputy assistant secretary of state during the Clinton administration and currently a professor chair of the 21st Century China Center at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego, looks at the tensions between the U.S. and China. The U.S. should give up its “wishful thinking” of changing China, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said, warning that some in America were pushing relations to a “new Cold War.” Shirk speaks on “Bloomberg Markets: Asia.”
In This Story: California
California, a western U.S. state, stretches from the Mexican border along the Pacific for nearly 900 miles. Its terrain includes cliff-lined beaches, redwood forest, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Central Valley farmland and the Mojave Desert. The city of Los Angeles is the seat of the Hollywood entertainment industry. Hilly San Francisco is known for the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island and cable cars.