Brookings: Conversation on how to connect with Chinese governmental people

A conversation-format with Governor Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, Congressman Rick Larsen of Washington state, and Mayor Nan Whaley of Dayton, Ohio moderated by Ryan Hass of Brookings; and Introduction by President John Allen, Brookings, was broadcast online October 15, 2020, 12 noon.  

I came away with a new awareness that while President Trump may not desire to engage the Chinese in regard to common concerns of people living in our separate countries of China and the States, our governmental administrators and national legislators are eager to get going!

And there are issues pressing upon both countries that would benefit from an exchange of ideas.  For one, the matter of poverty, the seeking to tear down then rebuild or relocate those former inhabitants of unsafe buildings.  China is currently moving the former inhabitants of slum dwellings, condemned to be torn down, into larger cities into newly constructed housing. This will permit greater access to hospitals and city services than from where they are coming.  How to get rid of the plight that residential and downtown areas of  towns and large metropolises is something, not just the Chinese but virtually all regions in the US, where people dwell here in great numbers are in need to remedy.

Through NGOs in China and those in the States, the right contacts seem near in the offing for people of good will to work together and tackle--to rid urban plight.  Then too, the problems of job creation and full employment are central to administrations in the US and China, with population explosions not infrequent, generation to generation.  And, lest we forget a new menacing threat, the dramatic change in climate, that will cause the seas to rise above flood stage in populated coastal cities here and in China!

Nevertheless, the commonplace issues of living in modern-day cities where pollution and decay of our structures are forever with us, make sound sense that elected officials at all levels of government should convene international events where solutions are formulated and promoted for the good of mankind--in the case at hand, for those both in America and China.