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and she is a hard worker, and she is a good friend and a caring person. So I am just very happy to be her mother.MS. YANG: I know you have just had a dialogue with the Chinese women. Some of them you have known for 11 years. Well, to the younger generation of women, like your daughters, what kind of advice would you like to give to those who aspire to succeed and lead, but could be afraid of failure?SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, that39。s really a wonderful addition to our embassy munity.MS. YANG: And so you are going back today, right?SECRETARY CLINTON: Yes. I have to go back today.MS. YANG: And just in time to celebrate your daughter39。s of our foreign policy: defense, diplomacy, development.We want to emphasize, particularly, diplomacy and development. And what I have tried to do in the month that I have had this position is to make clear that we will represent and defend the interests and the security and the values of the United States, but we want to listen.We are different countries and different cultures. China and the United States have very different histories. And we need to understand each other better so that we can find more mon ground. And I was encouraged by my talks with your leadership, that there are a number of areas we can work on together.We are constructing, and have agreed, in principle, to a strategic and economic dialogue that will not only include the economic crisis, which is very important, that China and America lead on a recovery, globally, but clean energy and climate change, and more educational exchanges, and peopletopeople exchanges, more work on health care, medicine, science.I want to deepen and broaden the connections, not only between government officials, as important at that is, but between all kinds of Chinese and Americans.MS. YANG: You know, former Treasury Secretary Paulson used to champion the dialogue in the structure of the Strategic Economic Dialogue. Have you convinced President Obama to let the State Department take back the reigns? And, if so, what kind of new framework of dialogue are we talking about?SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, we are going to have a prehensive, integrated dialogue. It will be cochaired by myself and the Treasury Secretary, because I think there was an awareness that our prior engagement at the dialogue level, governmenttogovernment, was very heavily dominated by economic concerns, and by traditional Treasury priorities. They are very important but that is not the only highlevel dialogue that needs to occur.So, we have always had a lot of interaction at many levels of our governments. But what we want to do is to integrate those, and to have our two Presidents, when they