He is the founding Faculty Director of the University of Chicago Center in Beijing, a university-wide initiative to strengthen exchanges and collaboration with Chinese academic institutions.

AED's Center for Academic Partnerships stated aim was to work with educational institutions and individuals in the United States and around the world to "strengthen and diversify academic exchanges and educational linkages."

Instead, he wants to concentrate on bilateral ties, on strengthening educational and economic exchanges.

The country's president, Hu Jintao, said he hoped to "continuously strengthen dialogue and exchanges between our two countries".

Since reforming and opening, it strengthens academic exchanges with the outside world and dispatches experts to the United States, Britain, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Israel, India and other countries.

This theme's objective was to strengthen cultural exchanges of people between Japan and the Pacific Islands in a way that would benefit both sides strategically.

The successful conclusion of the Doha round negotiations will strengthen and broaden international exchanges and international development.

I support the primary role of civil law: civil law and contractual law are there to strengthen European citizenship and economic and civil exchanges in Europe.

A number of EU high-level visits to Belarus this year helped strengthen political exchanges.

That is why my group will be supporting the amendments designed to strengthen cultural exchanges, the role of civilian society and the heritage conservation policies.