Mary Brown Bullock, Executive Vice Chancellor of DKU, was quoted in this week’s China Daily report on the rising numbers of US-China exchange students, thanks to both countries’ increasing efforts to promote educational exchange.
Bullock pointed out that education collaboration between the two countries started a century ago, when then-U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt stressed the necessity of establishing contact with China on education. “Educational ties have been a remarkably successful and long-lasting component of the bilateral relationship for more than a century,” she said. Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong was quoted in the same report,noting that American students and Chinese students are studying together to “form a fresh force dedicated to closer friendship between the two peoples.”
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