Exchange Database

June 10, 2016
The Student-Athlete Experience (SAE), the brainchild of two former USC football players, attempts to provide a unique experience for Chinese youths: a program combining on-field training with concentrated lessons in English.
December 2, 2016
Following Donald Trump's presidential election and two weeks after meeting with the president-elect to discuss US-China relations, Henry Kissinger traveled to Beijing to meet President Xi Jinping for a discussion of the same topic.
February 7, 2017
The US-Asia Institute hosted a reception celebrating 2017 Lunar New Year and 50 Years of ASEAN in the House Rayburn Office Building. Minister-Counselor Zhang Min attended the reception and made a few remarks.
September 27, 2017
On Tuesday, September 27, USAI staff and friends attended the celebration of the 67th Anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China at the Chinese Embassy.
April 3, 2017
This program seeks to promote cultural understanding, dispel stereotypes, develop global leaders, and build life-long friendships. On April 8, 2016, seven Wayland High School students left Boston for a six-week cultural, educational exchange with the Beijing Jingshan School Yuanyang Branch in Beijing, China.
April 3, 2017
From April 3 to 30, Ayad Akhtar's Pulitzer-winning drama, Disgraced, will tour universities and high schools in China. Joining the performers will be specialists in US-Middle East Relations, American studies, Islamic studies and other experts to lead discussions and answer questions through the tour.
April 7, 2017
President Xi Jinping visited President Donald Trump at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Trump had intended to press Xi for trade concessions and urge China to take a more active role in restraining North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, but the high-stakes discussions that began Thursday night and continued Friday were overshadowed by Trump’s muscular response to a poison gas attack blamed on Syrian President Bashar Assad.
April 7, 2017
After his meeting with President Donald Trump in Florida, President Xi Jinping took time in Alaska while his plane refueled before returning home. In Anchorage, President Xi and the Chinese delegation met with Alaska's Gov. Bill Walker, his wife, and several dignitaries.
July 10, 2017
President Trump and president Xi Jinping meet in Hamburg to discuss current political climate.
May 21, 1979
The American delegation traveled to China with the hopes of better understanding the advancement of nuclear physics following the Cultural Revolution. The delegation gave various lectures and were able to discuss their pertinent fields with counterparts.

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