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Peace Corps Quits China Quietly

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发表于 1-25-2020 11:52:32 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
Michael Meyer, The Peace Corps Cuts and Runs; I taught teenagers in southwest China about the Bible and the stock market. Wall Street Journal, Jan 24, 2020 (in the "Opinion" section, the page right before editorials).
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the ... nd-runs-11579824598
("Amid fanfare at the White House, the U.S. and China signed an agreement pausing the trade war. The next day, the US quietly terminated its Peace Corps program in China. The news didn’t merit a presidential tweet, or even a Peace Corps press release"_

Note:
(a) cut and run
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut_and_run
(b) "Mao Zedong had slandered the Peace Corps 和平队 as a tool of American imperialism, so his more pragmatic successors changed its name. I arrived as a US-China Friendship Volunteer 美中友好志愿者 项目 in 1995"
(c) 申华, 美国和平队决定撤离中国. VOA Chinese, Jan 18, 2020.
https://www.voachinese.com/a/us- ... 172020/5250321.html
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