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from: China and America: Studying the superpower | The Economist
Studying the superpower
Jan 18th 2011, 15:43 by The Economist online
China and America study each other
CHINA'S president, Hu Jintao, arrives in Washington, DC, on January 18th for a four-day state visit. As usual, he will be at pains to stress that his country wants only peace, but whether China continues its serene rise depends to some extent on how well it understands America and vice versa.
When Barack Obama visited China in 2009 he said he wanted America to send 100,000 students to China over four yearsthe current figure is around 14,000. The flow of students in the other direction is rather better established: Chinese now make up the largest group of foreign students (over 127,000) in America's universities. American students, for their part, have shown a greatly increased interest in learning Chinese in the past decade.
Unfortunately there are no data on how many of them give it up, defeated by the thousands of characters needed to read even a basic text.
Studying the superpower
Jan 18th 2011, 15:43 by The Economist online
China and America study each other
CHINA'S president, Hu Jintao, arrives in Washington, DC, on January 18th for a four-day state visit. As usual, he will be at pains to stress that his country wants only peace, but whether China continues its serene rise depends to some extent on how well it understands America and vice versa.
When Barack Obama visited China in 2009 he said he wanted America to send 100,000 students to China over four yearsthe current figure is around 14,000. The flow of students in the other direction is rather better established: Chinese now make up the largest group of foreign students (over 127,000) in America's universities. American students, for their part, have shown a greatly increased interest in learning Chinese in the past decade.
Unfortunately there are no data on how many of them give it up, defeated by the thousands of characters needed to read even a basic text.
