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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Thursday, March 27th.

I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of The New Yorker. President Obama was in Europe this week to reassure allies about Russia,

and First Lady Michelle Obama visited China. She spoke at Peking University.

That's why it's so important for information and ideas to flow freely over the internet and through the media,

because that's how we discover the truth. That's how we learn what's really happening in our

communities and our country and our world. Evan Osnose and John Cassidy joined me to talk about

the agendas of the two trips. Evan, you spent years reporting from China.

Those were purposefully anodyne remarks, especially compared to the speech Hillary Clinton gave

as First Lady in Beijing in 1995 at the United Nations Conference on Women.

Let's just listen to that for a second to get a sense of the contrast.

It is time for us to say here in Beijing and for the world to hear that it is no longer

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