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http://qctimes.com/news/local/xi/chinese-leader-s-visit-a-teach
Chinese leader’s visit a teaching moment
Security will be tight, and she doesn't have an invitation.
But Xiaowen Zhang is prepared to wait outside the Quad-City International
Airport in Moline, or maybe even follow the motorcade to Muscatine -
whatever it takes to catch a glimpse of China's vice president, Xi Jinping,
during his visit next week.
A native of Beijing and assistant professor of political science at
Augustana College in Rock Island, Zhang echoes what many other Quad-City
area academics are saying: This is history in the making.
And she hopes some of her students will want to experience this with her.
"The vice president very likely will become the next Chinese president for
the next 10 years," Zhang said. "He would be the top leader of China."
"The next 10 years will be a significant period for China, I think, as well
for U.S.-China relations. So this visit, I believe, he is trying to reach
out to Americans and sort of pave roads for his future Chinese-American
policy."
Why should anyone here care about what's happening in China?
Because China is the second-largest economy in the world, and there are
implications for this country as China continues its rise, Zhang said.
"Whether it will be a threat, or whether those countries can be potential
friends," she said.
Xi's visit is meaningful because it highlights relationships between the
people of both countries, and "the real positives about each other's
cultures," said Norman Moline, professor and chair of the geography
department at Augustana.
He has co-directed the college's foreign studies program in East Asia since
it began in 1974, and was part of the visit in 1977 that was history-making
in itself: Augustana was the first U.S. college allowed into China after it
began to open its doors to foreigners that year, he said.
Moline has visited China 36 times, taking student groups oversees to help
them develop an appreciation of that country and its culture, he said.
Each time, he has felt "a genuine interest in personal friendships" as he
continued making connections in China, Moline added.
"That would be the parallel with Vice President Xi," he said. "I think it's
a very nice story about a person who appreciated the warmth that was
extended to him early in his career, and now, as kind of a favor to
Muscatine and as a thank you, he's returning as a way of letting people here
know that visit of 26 years ago, 27 years ago, was important to him."
"The people of Muscatine must have treated him so well," he added, "that he
had such a good experience, that here in this very limited time, he wants to
come back and say another round of thanks."
Every year, St. Ambrose University in Davenport chooses an academic theme,
and plans a series of lectures and events about that topic. This year's
theme is "China Project: The Awakening Dragon," which explores China's
global impact on the economy, arts, religion and culture.
That focus goes along with a push to create new partnerships with
universities in China, said Xiaowei Liu, assistant professor of finance,
economics and decision science at St. Ambrose. He traveled in October with
two other university leaders to China, building a cooperative program to
bring students from China to St. Ambrose, and vice versa, he said.
"The first batch of students will come this fall," he said.
With the globalization of the economy, China is very important with its huge
population and fast-growing economy of its own, Liu said.
"Many of the world's challenges are going to require working with China to
solve them," said Ryan Dye, director of international education at St.
Ambrose. "The Chinese economy is becoming increasingly important to the
United States. Overall, it's becoming imperative for our students to learn
about China."
The Chinese leader's visit is "perfect timing," Dye said, as the university
prepares to host a business forum about China a week later.
Other schools also are using the visit as a way to bring China into the
forefront of their classroom discussions.
While students studying Chinese language at Rivermont Collegiate in
Bettendorf do not have a specific assignment related to Xi's visit, they
regularly follow media coverage of China to learn about the country's impact
on the world in many areas, including politics, economy, art, sports and
the environment, spokeswoman Brittany Marietta said. | e******e
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