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rtance is this: Is your language petent enough to express your ideas exactly the way you intendthem to be understood?I was informed afterwards that I was chosen to be the winner for my “appropriately worded speech, excellent presence and quickwitted response”.In so remarking, the judges clearly showed their preference: they e to listen for meaningful ideas, not for loose judgments, nor easy contestants failed to address their questions head were able to, but did not know where to stop—the dragging on betrayed their lack of root cause was that they did not listen attentively to the they were thinking of what they had I said in my speech, “It is vitally important that we young people do more serious thinking...to take them [issues like globalization] on and give them honest thinking is the first step to be prepared for both opportunities and challenges ing our way”.We need to respond petition like this draws talented students from all over the of course, I learnt more things than just about public in the final analysis, public speaking is all about effective this goes true for all munications, whatever their the following is the final version of my speech:GLOBALIZATION:OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGESFOR CHINA39。S YOUNGER GENERATIONThirty years ago, American President Richard Nixon made an epochmaking visit to China, a country still isolated at that Zhou Enlai said to him, “Your handshake came over the vastest ocean in the world—twentyfive years of nomunication”.Thirty years since, China and America have exchanged many fundamental implication of this example is that the need to municate across differences in culture and ideology is not only felt by the two countries but by many other nations as we can see today, environmentalists from different countries are making joint efforts to address the issue of global warming, economists are seeking solutions to financial crises that rage in a particular region but nonetheless cripple the world economy, and politicians and diplomats are getting together to discuss t