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He is one of just 350 US students in China, in a sign of how US-China tensions have frayed ties
It’s not just government-to-government ties that have taken a hit. The Straits Times looks at the fraying people-to-people connections between the United States and China.
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US student Jasper Boers, who is in Beijing on the Schwarzman scholarship programme, said he found the similarities between the US and the China to run the gamut.
PHOTOS: COURTESY OF JASPER BOERS, BRANTLY WOMACK
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BEIJING/WASHINGTON - At a quiet tea shop located on the edges of Beijing’s Tsinghua University, Mr Jasper Boers stands out amid the traditional Chinese wares and the few customers who are there on a Sunday afternoon, all of whom are Chinese.
He draws some glances. After all, American students like him are an increasingly rare presence on Chinese university campuses nowadays.
