From Courts to Classrooms People's Dialogue explores power of cross-cultural exchange between China and the U.S.

"With simultaneous interpretation,I heard each sentence twice,yet my smile always appeared a little later than everyone else's.But a late smile is still a smile,"Wang Jibing wrote in a poem reflecting on his first trip to the United States during the first U.S.-China People's Dialogue in New York City,held from October 23 to 24,2023.At the event,Wang,a poet and food delivery rider from Kunshan,a city near Shanghai,engaged in a conversation with Finn Murphy,an American long-haul truck driver and author.