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Recently Hillary Clinton mocked Barack Obama for saying his time living abroad has value when it comes to foreign policy. Yet, as someone who has lived abroad more than 15% of his life, I think that the experience contributes tremendously to understanding how foreign policy affects people outside of the US, and almost as importantly, [...]

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To be honest, I’ve never really celebrated Thanksgiving in China. My first year (2001) the university I worked at sent all the foreign teachers to a Chinese restaurant. The director of foreign affairs clearly had no interest in being there, and sat himself at a table of his cohorts and did not speak to the [...]

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