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Hope for a better tomorrow
By Patrick Whiteley (China Daily)
Updated: 2008-11-10 16:02
The US Election Watch Party at the US embassy in Beijing last week attracted big crowds. Guan Xin However he says the new administration faces major challenges. "It is encouraging to see that the president-elect is an intelligent and judicious person, besides being, as evidenced by his election itself, a superb politician - a skill any American president urgently needs," he says. "He has lived and functioned in several extremely different cultural settings, for example, Indonesia, Hawaii, Harvard University, Chicago's south side, not to mention the Senates of the State of Illinois and the United States. "His knowledge of the world, then, is broad and deep. We hope he will not forget any of it and will keep on learning." Rowell was assigned to study Chinese in the 1950s as a member of the US Air Force, and had always wanted to come to China. "After our children were educated and married, we looked for a job and in 2000 came to Hohhot, again as English teachers," he says. They have a small consulting business there and expect to remain in China as long as they are able to renew their visas. (China Daily 11/10/2008 page7)
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