From left: Kurt Campbell, chairman and CEO of The Asia Group and former assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs; Johnny Taylor Jr, president and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund; Evan Medeiros, special assistant to President Barack Obama and senior director for Asian affairs on the National Security Council; David Lampton, professor and director of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS); and Carola McGiffert, president of the 100,000 Strong Foundation, discuss the 100,000 Strong Initiative to send 100,000 American students to China over a period of four years at a meeting at SAIS on Tuesday. The foundation released its latest report of the project's progress at the meeting. [Chen Weihua / China Daily]