More personal exchanges would boost Sino-US ties chinadaily.com.cn - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chinadaily.com.cn Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Zhai Zheng, an associate professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU), came to the United States about 16 years ago through the Fulbright Program to teach Chinese language and culture at a university in Montana. He visited more than 20 states in the US over a month s time before returning to China. This experience was filled with so many pleasant memories that when I returned to China, I created and offered a course on American culture and society where I shared my understanding of the United States with hundreds of students at Beiwai (BFSU), Zhai told an audience at a virtual discussion hosted by the Carter Center and the Intellisia Institute in Atlanta on Wednesday.
People-to-people exchanges celebrated chinadaily.com.cn - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chinadaily.com.cn Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Many people from overseas have made a contribution to China s development over the years. As China celebrates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, China Daily looks at the lives and contributions of these friends from afar, who ve not only witnessed, but also participated in, the country s transformation over the years.
American Mark Levine wears many hats in China－educator, author, volunteer, musician, sociologist, cross-cultural communicator, winner of the Chinese government s Friendship Award, and, most noticeably, wide-brimmed.
The bushy-bearded 73-year-old is perhaps best known among the Chinese public for writing American country music-style songs about China that he performs in full cowboy regalia. He often sings and plays his guitar to the accompaniment of the erhu (two-stringed Chinese fiddle) played by his friend, Fu Han, in their musical duo, In Side Out.
OPINION / VIEWPOINT
By Long Xingchun Published: Apr 01, 2021 04:08 PM
China India Photo: GTA view in New Delhi s strategic circle argues that China benefited greatly from its engagement with the US from 1972 to around the year 2000, and thus, India should learn from China to use the US chariot to achieve its own development.
There is no problem at all for New Delhi to strengthen its economic ties with Washington, as the US remains the world s largest economy today. But there is a big difference between the India-US proximity now and China and the US moving close back then.
First, Beijing and Washington began their cooperation partly to jointly confront the Soviet Union during the Cold War era. The US almost had no economic exchanges with its then-rival, the Soviet Union. But now the Cold War has been long over, and China is not the new Soviet Union. China is still quite close with the US, especially economically. The large scale of trade between the two countries is sel