Robert Kuhn: People-to-people exchanges are a powerful driving force for understanding and cooperation Xi Jinping | President | Exchange
Xinhua News Agency, New York, July 7th. Robert Lawrence Kuhn, chairman of the Kuhn Foundation of the United States, said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency reporters that he highly agrees with President Xi Jinping's efforts to promote Sino-US cultural exchanges. It is a powerful tool to promote mutual understanding and cooperation between countries ".
Kuhn said that not long ago, when President Xi Jinping met with Bill Gates, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of the United States, he said that "the foundation of Sino-US relations lies in the people." in sending a congratulatory letter to the "Gulingyuan" Sino-US people-to-people Friendship Forum, he stressed that "the friendship between countries lies in the friendship between the people". He said, "These two things have resonated with me." President Xi Jinping's hope for the friendship between the people of the United States and China also reminded him of his own personal experience.
Over the past 30 years, as an expert on China issues and a winner of the China Reform Friendship Medal, Kuhn has visited China many times and witnessed the exchanges and interactions between President Xi Jinping and American people at the scene of U. S.-China cultural exchange activities. He said that President Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized that people-to-people exchanges play an important role in promoting the development of US-China relations and the outside world's understanding of the real China on occasions such as speeches and exchanges with American people.
Kuhn believes that people-to-people exchanges are one of the important contents of Xi Jinping's diplomatic thoughts, which is reflected not only in his views on US-China relations, but also in the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative. "This initiative involves not only infrastructure connectivity, but also people-to-people bonds, and President Xi Jinping attaches great importance to the fundamental element of 'human."
Kuhn pointed out that promoting cultural exchange can be carried out in various fields such as science, culture, sports, and health, while having clear goals. Starting from small things and adopting various forms can achieve better results.
