Good afternoon. I would like to welcome you all to this very special conference in celebration of the 35th anniversary of the u. S. China diplomatic relationship. Director of the china center here at brookings. Im thrilled to see such a big crowd of people. I had no idea i was this popular. Just as we finally saw a thaw in the temperature in washington this week, after a very long in u. S. Chinaaw relations more than three decades ago was almost equally as long awaited. The thaw began with pingpong diplomacy during the presidency of richard nixon. The ice finally fully mended by andtime president carter the chinese leader agreed to the 1979 joint community on establishments of diplomatic relations. It seems quite fitting that we are holding this event during a week when we have seen pictures streaming back from china of First Lady Michelle Obama playing pingpong, learning tai chi. Quite impressive, if you saw the picture. And appearing at schools to speak to the future generations of c
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