EDUCATION : Fulbrights on Sino-U.S. Agenda
China and the United States said today they have opened talks on resuming the Fulbright scholar exchange program, a victim of the chill in relations after China’s crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators.
China’s State Education Commission and the U.S. Embassy said their representatives met for the first time last week--just days after U.S. National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft’s fence-mending visit to Beijing.
Neither side linked the talks to Scowcroft’s visit, but embassy spokesman Ed Loo acknowledged, “There wasn’t much going on before.”
He said the United States had been seeking a renewal of the government-sponsored Fulbright program “for some time.”
China announced this fall that it was halting the program for a year.
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