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American an example for president to followBy Mike Peters (China Daily)
Updated: 2009-11-16 07:41 Great expectations. That could be the headline for the US president as he begins his trip to China. Mr Obama's agenda includes the global financial crisis and global warming, not to mention the challenge screaming from China's bookshelves: "Follow Barack Obama to Learn English". Talk about the audacity of hope! He also comes to China at a time when an American family is mourning the death of a son in Beijing. Arun David Stewart, a young man who loved China, taught English to underprivileged migrant children and pursued his passion of learning Mandarin, was killed in a freak fall from a rooftop on Oct 31. Nothing Obama can do will bring Stewart back, and I will leave it to others to exhort the president to take big, bold steps to curb emissions and reform currency barriers. As an American recently arrived from the United States myself, my hopes and expectations will be more modest. In the short time he is here, I hope he can embrace China and its people as Stewart did. I have found Beijing to be energetic, modern, clean and full of people eager to welcome me as an American. Three days will not allow the US president enough time to know China as Arun Stewart, whose life will be celebrated at a memorial service in Dallas today, did. But with his own open mind and heart, I think Obama will have no problem seeing the human face of China. High-five a few college kids, Mr President.
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