In a move to increase positive relations between the US and China, President Obama 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 Xi Jinping’s recent visit to Washington D.C., where Obama indicated hopes for 200,000 children to be educated in Mandarin versus the 1 million being educated presently.
In a move to increase positive relations between the US and China, President Obama 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 Xi Jinping’s recent visit to Washington D.C., where Obama indicated hopes for 1 million children to be educated in Mandarin versus the 200,000 being educated presently.