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President Obama’s first visit to China this weekend comes just weeks ahead of the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen. Global climate change is expected to be a major topic of Obama’s meetings with Chinese President Hu Jintao, as The World’s Asia correspondent Mary Kay Magistad reports.

• Our interview with Danish Climate Minister Hedegaard
• Environment coverage on The World
• BBC coverage of the Copenhagen summit
• US-China ties ‘to shape century’

See also

• November 13, 2009 -- Entire program – November 13, 2009
• November 13, 2009 -- 9/11 mastermind to be tried in New York
• November 13, 2009 -- Name Uranus and Neptune… in Hebrew!
• November 13, 2009 -- ‘The Messenger’