Educational exchanges can improve ties: Expert

The US-China Higher Education Dialogue and other exchanges are crucial platforms for fostering understanding and cooperation amid geopolitical tensions, an expert says.

"The higher education relationship between the US and China continues to be strategically important to both countries," Denis Simon, a nonresident fellow at the Quincy Institute and a senior lecturer at Duke University's Asian Pacific Studies Institute, said in an interview with China Daily.

"China wants to educate its students in a more international setting. The United States needs to increase its understanding of China," he said.