On October 23, Mr. Wang Chao, President of the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs (CPIFA), met with Ambassador Nicholas Platt, Chairman of the Advisory Council of the US-China Education Trust (USCET) and former U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, the Philippines and Pakistan, Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch, the Founder-President of the USCET and former U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Nepal, as well as Dr. Robert A. Kapp, Special Advisor for the USCET and former Presidentof the US-China Business Council. The two sides exchanged views on China-US relations, the cooperation between the CPIFA and the USCET, and other issues of common interest. Ambassador Zhao Weiping, Vice President of the CPIFA, and Ambassador Chen Naiqing, former Vice President of the CPIFA, were present at the meeting.