Project Pengyou, which is based in Beijing, connects students who have lived or studied in China. Chang said 1 ties forged during study abroad can have an impact on national 2 between the U.S. and China. “We live in this 3 world where there is increasingly, there’s power struggle, but there’s still a huge level of 4 I think on a cultural level, and it’s not until you actually 5 those people-to-people relations and 6 personal bonds between people that they actually strengthen their 7 to work together,” said Chang. Support for study abroad programs has also gotten a recent 8 from Beijing officials. Chang said, “And the Chinese 9 came out and said we’ll fund 20,000 scholarships, which was 10 and also a signal that yeah, they’re into it.”