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The world's spotlight will be on Beijing, China, Aug. 8-24 for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. The months preceding the games have seen heightened international interest in, and scrutiny of, China as it prepares for the event. The RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research organization, has experts available to discuss a variety of issues surrounding the Olympics.

• Roger Cliff, RAND senior political scientist; author, "Entering the Dragon's Lair: Chinese Antiaccess Strategies and Their Implications for the United States." Topics: China's military; China's external relations; China's science and technology; international security. Cliff also reads and speaks Chinese.
• Eric Heginbotham, RAND political scientist; author, "China and the Developing World: Beijing's Strategy for the Twenty-First Century." Topics: China's military; China's external relations; international politics. Heginbotham reads and speaks Chinese.
• Brian Michael Jenkins, RAND senior advisory; author, "Unconquerable Nation: Knowing Our Enemy, Strengthening Ourselves." Topics: Olympic security measures.
• Eric Larson, RAND senior policy researcher; author, "Misfortunes of War: Press and Public Reactions to Civilian Deaths in Wartime." Topics: American and foreign attitudes toward China and on national security issues.
• Evan Medeiros, RAND senior political scientist; author, "Modernizing China's Military: Opportunities and Restraints." Topics: China's international behavior; Chinese foreign policy decision-making; and Chinese defense and national security affairs.
• Hans Pung, director, RAND Europe; author, "Setting the Agenda for an Evidence-Based Olympics." Topics: key issues planners and policy makers will have to address in preparation for the London Olympics in 2012. Note: Pung is based in RAND Europe's Cambridge office, europeanmedia@rand.org
• K. Jack Riley, associate director of RAND's National Security Research Division; author, "Securing America's Passenger-Rail Systems." Topics: Olympic security measures.
• Charles Wolf, Jr., RAND distinguished chair in international economics; senior economic adviser; author, "Fault Lines in China's Economic Terrain." Topics: International economic policy; China's economic and security relations with the U.S.; relationships between economic issues and foreign and defense policy, particularly in Asia and Europe.

To arrange an interview:

Contact the RAND Office of Media Relations, (703) 413-1100, x5117 or (310) 451-6913, or send an email to media@rand.org.

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