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In this article, former Clinton administration China specialist, Kenneth Lieberthal, is advising U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for making climate change the key topic on the policy agenda for Washington-Beijing ties. Lieberthal, now at the Brookings Institution, said in a recent paper that China's environment is in bad shape and threatens the pace of economic growth. According to Lieberthal, the environmental problem is a threat to both China and the U.S.