There were stories considered less newsworthy by mainstream American media when the Chinese president Xi Jinping paid a state visit last month (He started a visit to the U.K. today), but they might be more relevant to the Mandarin Chinese learners in this country. Here are some highlights:
and on Huffpost Politics
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Here is the link of the office site of the 100K Strong Foundation.
- On Sept. 25, in a joint press conference with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Obama announced the launch of “1 Million Strong,” an initiative that aims to bring the total number of stateside learners of Mandarin Chinese to 1 million by the year 2020. “If our countries are going to do more together around the world,” said Obama, “then speaking each other’s language, truly understanding each other, is a good place to start.”
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- "The Chinese character Ren or people is in a shape of two strokes supporting each other. The foundation of China-U.S. friendship has its roots in the people, and its future rests with the youth. I wish to announce here that China supports the initiative of sending a total of 50,000 Chinese and American students to study in each other's countries over the next three years. China and the U.S. will launch a China-U.S. Year of Tourism in 2016. China on its part will create more favorable conditions for closer people-to-people exchanges."
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Here is the link of the office site of the 100K Strong Foundation.