The U.S.-China Consultation on People-to-People Exchange

Good things are happening at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai!  During Secretary Clinton's remarks today at the signing of the U.S.-China Consultation on People-to-People Exchange she reaffirmed President Obama's bold plan to send 100,000 U.S. students to China to study abroad.  Additionally, Secretary Clinton announced that 10,000 Chinese students will be supported to get their Ph.D.'s in the United States.  In addition to establishing the U.S.-China Consultation on People-to-People Exchange, Secretary Clinton and Chinese State Councilor Liu Yandong renewed the the Implementing Accord for Cultural Exchange and as well as the Agreement for Cooperation in Educational Exchanges.

I won't go into all the details in this post as you can read more information in the fact sheet as well as text of Secretary Clinton's remarks at http://www.state.gov/headlines/142186.htm.
Embedded photo credit via @KateAtState at http://yfrog.com/5cj4yj

Secretary Clinton's Reset Button Gift to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

I’ve been a fan of the AFS Intercultural Eyes blog for some time now and found Bettina Hansel’s[1] March 10th post on the cultural miscommunication between U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to be quite interesting. You can access Bettina’s post here.

[1] Bettina Hansel is AFS’s Director of Intercultural Education and Research and she created and maintains the AFS Intercultural Eyes blog.