It is indeed a silver lining that U.S. and Chinese educational communities have come out to support each other as unfavorable U.S. policies and the surging COVID-19 pandemic disrupted educational exchanges between the two countries, a senior Chinese diplomat said. “I have heard a bunch of touching stories” about the bilateral cooperation on education during the pandemic, Yang Xinyu, minister counselor for educational affairs at the Chinese Embassy in the United States, told Julia Chang Bloch, founder of the U.S.-China Education Trust and former U.S. ambassador to Nepal, on Thursday. For exampl...