China and Myanmar are reeling from recent natural disasters. International relations professor Roy Grow of Carleton College joins Midday to discuss China's powerful 7.9 earthquake, the cyclone that wiped out Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta and how the devastated countries are working toward recovery.

Woodrow Wilson Center public policy scholar Aaron Miller spent over 20 years with the State Department working on the Arab-Israel peace process. He's now out with a new book that details why he thinks the U.S. has been unable to broker a peace agreement in the Middle East. He discussed his book, "The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace," in a recent speech at the City Club of Cleveland.