Today each country’s understanding of the other is often more limited than it should be. In most respects, this limitation is the strongest in the United States. Consider the fact that President Xi’s education included reading American authors from Alexander Hamilton to Ernest Hemingway. How many American politicians have read comparable Chinese authors? With more than twenty-five hundred years of rich history, the problem is not a lack of supply but a shortage of interest.
And in the last 4 years the interest has actually DECLINED:https://www.economist.com/britain/2020/08/29/why-studying-chinese-is-in-decline
