Congresswoman: Nations can learn from each other

File photo of Judy Chu

GUANGZHOU - She was in China for a week to talk business and politics, but the last leg of US Congresswoman Judy Chu's trip turned out to be one of the most personal and memorable parts - a visit to her ancestral home of Jiangmen, Guangdong province.

"Going to my home village and the Jiangmen museum of overseas Chinese it exemplified so greatly the hardships of the Chinese experience when they went abroad and had been treated so poorly by the immigration officials and experienced such hardships as they were trying to settle in America. "It just brought home for me what kind of difficulties that my own grandfather and parents must have experienced as they came over."