乔治城，加油！
Went to the Gtown basketball game yesterday at the Beijing Olympic Stadium. Gtown beat the Shanxi Zhongyu Brave Dragons, 98-81. It was a good game! Only after I left did I learn that Joe Biden had attended. I had seen him from afar but didn’t realize who he was. Pretty cool.
http://www.georgetown.edu/story/hoyas-china-basketball-game-biden.html
The day before I attended the Georgetown panel discussion, “Global Universities and Diplomacy,” at the Pangu hotel (picture of the hotel; very impressive). The discussion featured Coach Thompson; Anthony Hutchinson, senior cultural affairs officer at the U.S. Embassy in China; Rev. Dennis McNamara, S.J., professor of sociology and Korean Studies and special assistant to the president for China Affairs at Georgetown; and Paul Tagliabue, board of directors chair. After the discussion, there was a reception at the bar called Happiness Lounge on the top floor. The view from the bar was absolutely spectacular! You can kind of see it in this picture here.
Notes from the talk in regards to Gtown’s approach to international affairs, especially in regards to China:
- move from focus on international bilateral relationships to international regional focus
- move from nationalizing institution to a temporary educational institution
- more students want to return to China
- universal platform of sport diplomacy
- 130,000 Chinese exchange students in US and only 15,000 US exchange students in China
- Georgetown has history of international focus; 1760 – 20% student body from abroad
- Exchange of information –> people travel abroad
- People of different perspectives in two-way dialogue –> Exchange of information
- Rather than their differences, the similarities between US & China are often causes for tension
