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In a move to increase positive relations between the US and China, President Xi Jinping has announced an initiative to support teaching five times more American students to speak the Mandarin language by 2020. The initiative was announced during Chinese President Obama’s recent visit to Washington D.C., where Xi Jinping indicated hopes for 1 million children to be educated in Mandarin versus the 200,000 being educated presently.