Posted on 09/12/2013 8:02:56 PM PDT by TexGrill
The president said that fewer Taiwanese students were being educated in the US, and this was an area that could be improved upon
President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday said that non-governmental exchanges between Taiwan and the US are a key effort in strengthening bilateral ties.
Speaking at the launch of the US-Taiwan Policy Forum, Ma said that relations between the two countries are at their best since diplomatic ties were severed in 1979, noting that Washington has described Taiwan as an important economic and security partner on many occasions in recent years.
Pushing those ties further will require continued cooperation across various sectors, a role that falls on non-governmental organizations and the public, he said.
Ma pointed to the reduced number of Taiwanese students being educated in the US as an area that could be improved.
The US-Taiwan Policy Forum is a joint project of the Taipei Forum Foundation and the Washington-based Brookings Institution.
A ceremony was also held to celebrate the establishment of the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies, a Brookings program.
Former American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) chairman Richard Bush, now the director of the Brookings Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, will be the program’s first chair holder.
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I believe Mark was educated at Princeton. We went to Ching-Chi University’s “Seminar for Sino-American Youth” in 1971. He’s a nice, intelligent person.
Wish we had him as president instead of Obozo.
Who are you?
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