Jeffrey Wasserstrom

University of California, Irvine

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Jeffrey Wasserstrom is a professor of history at the University of California at Irvine and the author of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know.

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President Obama is in Beijing at the APEC summit of Pacific Rim leaders this week, where he announced a new visa policy between the U.S. and China.

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