【正文】 s wonderful to have these exchanges between of the things that I discussed with the Mayor is how both cities can lea。s your name?Q: My name is(inaudible)and I am a student from Fudan and Chicago have been sister cities since 1985, and these two cities have conduct a wide range of economic, political, and cultural what measures will you take to deepen this close relationship between cities of the United States and China? And Shanghai will hold the World Exposition next you bring your family to visit the Expo? Thank OBAMA: Well, thank you very much for the was just having lunch before I came here with the Mayor of Shanghai, and he told me that he has had an excellent relationship with the city of Chicagomy home townthat he39。ll start with this young lady right in the don39。ll go back and forth, so that you know it39。ll do is I39。s dialogue, I hope that it is a mitment to continue this dialogue going thank you very I look forward now to taking some questions from all of you very much.(Applause.)SoI just want to make sure this is a tradition, by the way, that is very mon in the United States at these town hall what we39。m absolutely confident that America has no better ambassadors to offer than our young they, just like you, are filled with talent and energy and optimism about the history that is yet to be let this be the next step in the steady pursuit of cooperation that will serve our nations, and the if there39。s why I39。s success need not e at the expense of that is why the United States insists we do not seek to contain China39。ve said many times that I believe that our world is now fundamentally jobs we do, the prosperity we build, the environment we protect, the security that we seekall of these things are given that interconnection, power in the 21st century is no longer a zerosum game。m looking forward to deepening the partnership between the United States and China in this critical area above all, I see China39。s country now has the world39。s extraordinary mitment to science and researcha mitment borne out in everything from the infrastructure you build to the technology you is now the world39。s generation can do better than today39。our mitment to international law。s openness to other countries。and why someone like me, who less than 50 years ago would have had trouble voting in some parts of America, is now able to serve as its that is why America will always speak out for these core principles around the do not seek to impose any system of government on any other nation, but we also don39。s why immigrants from China to Kenya could find a home on our shores。that merce should be open, information freely accessible。m is no coincidence that the relationship between our countries has acpanied a period of positive has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of povertyan acplishment unparalleled in human historywhile playing a larger role in global the United States has seen our economy grow along with the standard of living enjoyed by our people, while bringing the Cold War to a successful is a Chinese proverb: “Consider the past, and you shall know the future.” Surely, we have known setbacks and challenges over the last 30 relationship has not been without disagreement and the notion that we must be adversaries is not predestinednot when we consider the , because of our cooperation, both the United States and China are more prosperous and more have seen what is possible when we build upon our mutual interests, and engage on the basis of mutual yet the success of that engagement depends upon understandingon sustaining an open dialogue, and learning about one another and from one just as that American table tennis player pointed outwe share much in mon as human beings, but our countries are different in certain believe that each country must chart its own is an ancient nation, with a deeply rooted United States, by parison, is a young nation, whose culture is determined by the many different immigrants who have e to our shores, and by the founding documents that guide our documents put forward a simple vision of human affairs, and they enshrine several core principlesthat all men and women are created equal, and possess certain fundamental rights。m only sorry that I won39。the promotion of peace and security in Asia and around the of these issues will be on the agenda tomorrow when I meet with President in 1979, the connections among our people were , we see the curiosity of those pingpong players manifested in the ties that are being forged across many second highest number of foreign students in the United States e from China, and we39。and we export to China machinery that helps power your trade could create even more jobs on both sides of the Pacific, while allowing our people to enjoy a better quality of as demand bees more balanced, it can lead to even broader 1979, the political cooperation between the United States and China was rooted largely in our shared rivalry with the Soviet , we have a positive, constructive and prehensive relationship that opens the door to partnership on the key global issues of our timeeconomic recovery and the development of clean energy。s 1784, our founding father, George Washington, missioned the Empress of China, a ship that set sail for these shores so that it could pursue trade with the Qing wanted to see the ship carry the flag around the globe, and to forge new ties with nations like is a mon American impulsethe desire to reach for new horizons, and to forge new partnerships that are mutually the two centuries that have followed, the currents of history have steered the relationship between our countries in many even in the midst of tumultuous winds, our people had opportunities to forge deep and even dramatic instance, Americans will never forget the hospitality shown to our pilots who were shot down over your soil during World War II, and cared for by Chinese civilians who risked all tha