Saturday, January 08, 2005

Not Invented Here

You can’t say that China has not become very outward looking. Each year it send thousands – yep, thousands – of mid- and high-level government officials to study governance abroad. Most of them go to the West: France, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Australia and the US of A. Here, they attend programs at Harvard, Syracuse, Maryland and Rutgers today and there will be more tomorrow. In fact, short training programs for Chinese government officials is now one of the hottest segments of the education market.

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