Secretary Clinton: 100,000 Strong Initiative Is an Essential Building Block to U.S.-China Relations

 

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered remarks at the inaugural meeting of the Advisory Committee for the 100,000 Strong Initiative on May 10, 2011. Secretary Clinton said the initiative is “an essential building block to a more solid foundation of a relationship going forward.” She said that despite the improvements in communication, there is still a lot to be learned between our two nations.

Secretary Clinton said, “…I was struck when we did the Shanghai Expo Pavilion, which when I became Secretary of State was not anywhere in any briefing book that I was given, and I have to confess I didn’t even know about it until I was in China in February of ‘09 on my very first trip at a very formal consultation with the foreign minister and other dignitaries… more »

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