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• Thomas R. Pickering (Career Ambassador, U.S. Dep’t of State)
• Jerome Cohen (NYU Law School; Council on Foreign Relations);
• Michael McFaul (Hoover Institution);
• Elsa B. Kania (Center for New American Security);
• Stephen Orlins (National Committee on US-China Relations);
• Bill Bishop (Publisher, Sinocism Newsletter)
• Margaret Lewis (Professor, Seton Hall Law School);
• Cheng Li and Ryan McElveen (Brookings Institution),
• Sharon Yam (University of Kentucky);
• Randall Nadeau (Foundation for Scholarly Exchange (“Fulbright Taiwan”));
• Scott Kennedy (Center for Strategic and International Studies);
• James Millward (Georgetown University);
• William C. Kirby (Harvard Business School);
• Tim Grose (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology);
• Peter Lorentzen (University of San Francisco);
• Lingling Wei (Wall Street Journal);
• Thorsten Benner (Global Public Policy Institute);
• Mary Gallagher (University of Michigan);
• Ray Kwong (Forbes);
• Cynthia Schneider (Georgetown University);
• Victor Shih (UC San Diego);
• Association for Asian Studies.

Even Secretary of State Mike Pompeo seems to support programs like the Fulbright when he clarified that  “[t]he United States welcomes the reciprocal and fair exchange of cultural programs with PRC officials and the Chinese people” after canceling various one-way programs with China. The Fulbright program is reciprocal, sending people in both directions – Americans to China and Chinese to America. It is also a program that is supported by both the U.S. and Chinese governments, with the Chinese government giving $1.3 million to the program in 2016 and the U.S. giving $5.5 million. (2016 is the last Fulbright year that the current Fulbright Board published an annual report even though required to by Congress).

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