ChineseForeign MinistryspokesmanJiang yusaidThursdaytheappreciation of the yuan would notsolve the massiveU. S. tradedeficitwithChina, or the highunemployment rate in the u.
The other students later went abroad, to Israel or the U.S., leaving Yu with an odd distinction: he's probably the sole Hebrew-speaking college graduate in a country of 1.2 billion people.