<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span></div><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span><br></span></div><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span>Chinese President Xi Jinping was somewhat overshadowed by the Pope's visit to Washington. John and Sid at KMEC Radio puts it all in perspective with noted Chinese scholar, Henry Rosemont, Jr.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span>BACKGROUND</span></div><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span><br></span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span>President Barack Obama announced on Friday that he had reached a "common understanding" with Chinese President Xi Jinping on curbing economic cyber espionage, but threatened to impose U.S. sanctions on Chinese hackers who persist with cyber crimes.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span>The two leaders also unveiled a deal to build on a landmark emissions agreement struck last year, outlining new steps they will take to deliver on pledges they made then to slash their greenhouse gas emissions.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span>Speaking after White House talks during Xi's first U.S. state visit, Obama quickly homed in on the thorniest dispute between the world's two biggest economies - growing U.S. complaints about Chinese hacking of government and corporate databases, and the suspicion in Washington that Beijing is sometimes behind it.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span>Analysts said the agreement was significant. James Lewis, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the leaked plan for sanctions helped push the Chinese toward a better-than-expected agreement, but noted that Beijing also got Washington to consider some Chinese concepts for norms of behavior.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span>For more analysis, KMEC Radio speaks with Distinguished Professor, Henry Rosemont, Jr..</span></div><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span><br></span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span>HENRY ROSEMONT, JR.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span>Henry Rosemont, Jr. is George B. & Willmam Reeves Distinguished Professor of the Liberal arts at St. Mary's College of Maryland, and since 2002 been Visiting Scholar of Religious Studies at Brown University. He also spent three years in China as Fulbright Senior Lecturer at Fudan University in Shanghai.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span>Among his books are "A Chinese Mirror, Rationality and Religious Experience, Is There A Universal Grammar of Religion?" (with Huston Smith), and "A Reader's Companion to the Confucian Analects". He has edited and/or translated ten other books, including "Leibniz: Writings on China" (with Daniel Cook) and with Roger Ames, "The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation".</span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span>Rosemont recently wrote the piece "Re-thinking U.S.-China Relations." See: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/henry-rosemont-jr/re-thinking-us-china-relations_b_8105516.html</span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span>KMEC RADIO</span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span>KMEC broadcasts at 105.1 FM, in Ukiah California. Our studios are located in the offices of the Mendocino Environmental Center and the Cloud Forest Institute.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span>We stream live to a worldwide audience at www.kmecradio.org</span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span></span><div class="_209g _2vxa" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><span>Our shows are posted to Youtube with video and text. 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