Commentary: Whether the US is creating self-fulfilling prophecy by painting North Korea as a rogue state and China as an economic adversary

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Commentary: Whether the US is creating self-fulfilling prophecy by painting North Korea as a rogue state and China as an economic adversary

Host: LIANE HANSEN Time: 12:00 Noon-1:00 PM

DANIEL SCHORR:

If only, to paraphrase the poet Robert Burns, we could see ourselves as others see us.

LIANE HANSEN, host:

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr.

SCHORR: Over the years, an extraordinary amount of research and intelligence has been devoted to trying to understand the inscrutable East. Jim Hoagland writes in The Washington Post that American scholars are arrested in ...

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