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she’s married to a Chinese person from when you see family gatherings in the Obama household, it looks like the United Nations.(Laughter.)And that is a great strength of the United States, because it means that we learn from different cultures and different foods and different ideas, and that has made us a much more dynamic , what is also true is that each country in this interconnected world has its own culture and its own history and its own I think it’s very important for the United States not to assume that what is good for us is automatically good for somebody we have to have some modesty about our attitudes towards other have to say, though, as I said in my opening remarks, that we do believe that there are certain fundamental principles that are mon to all people, regardless of , for example, in the United Nations we are very active in trying to make sure that children all around the world are treated with certain basic rights — that if children are being exploited, if there’s forced labor for children, that despite the fact that that may have taken place in the past in many different countries, including the United States, that all countries of the world now should have developed to the point where we are treating children better than we did in the ’s a universal believe, for example, the same thing holds true when it es to the treatment of had a very interesting discussion with the Mayor of Shanghai during lunch right before I came, and he informed me that in many professions now here in China, there are actually more women enrolled in college than there are men, and that they are doing very think that is an excellent indicator of progress, because it turns out that if you look at development around the world, one of the best indicators of whether or not a country does well is how well it educates its girls and how it treats its countries that are tapping into the talents and the energy of women and giving them educations typically do better economically than countries that don’, now, obviously difficult cultures may have different attitudes about the relationship between men and women, but I think it is the view of the United States that it is important for us to affirm the rights of women all around the if we see certain societies in which women are oppressed, or they are not getting opportunities, or there is violence towards women, we will speak , there may be some people who disagree with us, and we can have a dialogue about we think it’s important, nevertheless, to be true to our ideals and our we — and when we do so, though, we will always do so with the humility and understanding that we are not perfect and that we still have much progress to you talk to women in America, they will tell you that there are still men who have a lot of oldfashioned ideas about the role of women in so we don’t claim that we have solved all these problems, but we do think that it’s important for us to speak out on behalf of these universal ideals and these universal ? All ’re going to take a question from the Hello, ’s a great honor to be here and meet you in OBAMA: Thank I will be reading a question selected on the Internet to you, and this question is from somebody from his question, he said: I e from I am doing business on the due to improved crossstraits relations in recent years, my business in China is doing quite when I heard the news that some people in America would like to propose — continue selling arms and weapons to Taiwan, I begin to get pretty worry that this may make our crossstraits relations I would like to know if, , are you supportive of improved crossstraits relations? And although this question is from a businessman, actually, it’s a question of keen concern to all of us young Chinese students, so we’d really like to know your position on this you.(Applause.)PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank , I have been clear in the past that my administration fully supports a oneChina policy, as reflected in the three joint muniqu233。I have a mother who was from Kansas, in the Midwest of the United States。and our faith in the are all things that you should know about also know that we have much to learn about around at this magnificent city — and looking around this room — I do believe that our nations hold something important in mon, and that is a belief in the the United States nor China is content to rest on our while China is an ancient nation, you are also clearly looking ahead with confidence, ambition, and a mitment to see that tomorrow’s generation can do better than today’ addition to your growing economy, we admire China’s extraordinary mitment to science and research — a mitment borne out in everything from the infrastructure you build to the technology you is now the world’s largest Internet user — which is why we were so pleased to include the Internet as a part of today’s country now has the world’s largest mobile phone network, and it is investing in the new forms of energy that can both sustain growth and bat climate change — and I’m looking forward to deepening the partnership between the United States and China in this critical area above all, I see China’s future in you — young people whose talent and dedication and dreams will do so much to help shape the 21st ’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 seek — all of these things are given that interconnection, power in the 21st century is no longer a zerosum game。our respect for different cultures。why opportunity is available to all who would work for it。that merce should be open, information freely accessible。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 be