The talks between the U.S. and China this week include climate change, clean energy, nuclear nonproliferation, and humanitarian crises. And the overwhelming challenge: economics and trade. Ron Kirk, President Obama’s U.S. trade representative, discusses the Beijing-Washington trade talks.
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