03.12.08

The Man Who Stayed Behind…

Posted in China, Highlights, History at 1:29 am by ryan

Today was an extremely exciting day. I bumped into James Fallows again, after I had just met him for coffee yesterday.

Then, low and behold, in the parking lot behind me was the man who I came to meet, The Man Who Stayed Behind, and his wife Wang Yulin (王玉林). Today I had the fortune of spending most of the day with the two of them.

When Sidney was at the Stanford Language School, he had already realized America had a huge supply of technology and capital, and China, the largest and oldest country in the world was badly in need of technology and capital. The two made for such natural friends.

Today, when asked what one can do to help China, Sidney said that telling Americans about what is happening in China, trying to improve American support for Sino-American cooperation is very important.

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