Sharing views

Kurt Campbell (seated right), US assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, takes a question from Xia Liping, dean of the School of Political Science and International Relations at Shanghai's Tongji University, during a discussion on Thursday at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. To the left of Campbell is Jessica Mathews, Carnegie president. The daylong Crux of Asia forum drew speakers from China, India and the United States on topics such as the global order, regional security, space security and the search for energy security. It coincided with this week's publication of Crux of Asia, a book of essays by Chinese and Indian scholars on their countries' perspectives on various global and regional issues. David Shambaugh, a George Washington University professor, and Shen Dingli, from Shanghai's Fudan University, and Zha Daojiong, a Peking University professor, also spoke at the forum. Photo by Sun Chenbei / China Daily