US Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman spoke and answered questions via live webcast sponsored by the National Committee on US - China Relations to a NW China Council audience of fifty in Portland. Portland was one of fifty national sites included in the webcast. In his remarks, relevant to the themes of this blog, he repeatedly stressed the need to prepare the younger generations in both China and the US for the responsibility of maintaining the relationship. He called for “more opportunities to study Mandarin”, adding that it is the best way “to crack the code of culture.” He said he sees in his office a lot of US students studying abroad in China, but that we need “take the few who are given these opportunities and times it by about 1000." I was disappointed that the moderator did not ask him for more details on what he thought needed to be done to increased the study of Mandarin in the US or to get more US students to China.
The NW China Council program also included Jacqueline Fu, a partner from the Taipei office of the international legal firm of K & L Gates, speaking on the recent “Economic Cooperation Famework Agreement” (ECFA) between Taiwan and China. She showed and spoke to a powerpoint presentation (see several photos above, click to see larger). She explained that with the mutual reduction of tariffs between China and Taiwan, it would now cost less to manufacture and exports goods to China fom Taiwan than it would from Oregon.
Career foreign service officer and former Ambassador Darryl Johnson added that where a few years ago there were zero air flight between China and Taiwan, that there were now 270 flights a day from China to Taiwan. He also noted that when the Chinese go to Taiwan, they see a working democracy.
A video of the Ambassador Huntsman's presentation can be found on the National Committee for US-China Relations website here.
A video of the Ambassador Huntsman's presentation can be found on the National Committee for US-China Relations website here.
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Career foreign service officer and former Ambassador Darryl Johnson added that where a few years ago there were zero air flight between China and Taiwan, that there were now 270 flights a day from China to Taiwan. He also noted that when the Chinese go to Taiwan, they see a working democracy.
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She explained that with the mutual reduction of tariffs between China and Taiwan, it would now cost less to manufacture and exports goods to China fom Taiwan than it would from Oregon.
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I was disappointed that the moderator did not ask him for more details on what he thought needed to be done to increased the study of Mandarin in the US or to get more US students to China.
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Portland was one of fifty national sites included in the webcast. In his remarks, relevant to the themes of this blog, he repeatedly stressed the need to prepare the younger generations in both China and the US for the responsibility of maintaining the relationship.
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