Current Events # 2

China : Effort to Attract Foreign Students
By : Edward Wong
September 30, 2010
nytimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/world/asia/30briefs-Chinabf.html?_r=1&ref=china

The main topic of this article is that China is trying to attract more foreign students to study for degrees.

China is trying to attract more foreign student. They are planning to get 150,000 foreign students to study for degrees by 2020. They are offering more scholarships to the students and asking other governments to do the same. They are doing this because its a plan of the country to get more power or influence through culture and diplomacy.

I choose this article because were are studying about civilization in Global class. China is one of these civilization that we are studying.

This article is related to what were are studying because it had to do with civilization. One of the eight factors of civilization was learning.