Anthony Box, 17, is your typical all-American boy. He spends his time studying, chilling with his school friends, and riding a unicycle. Except Anthony is living for a year in Beijing with a Chinese family. He's part of the School Year Abroad program, which recently partnered with the ambitious "100,000 Strong Foundation" that aims to strengthen often frosty U.S.-China relations, one teenager at a time. The organization says it has already achieved its aim of having more than 100,000 U.S. students in China. However, the numbers of American students in China are dwarfed by the 235,500 Chinese currently studying in America.
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Relations between the United States and China are often tense
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Organization hopes to thaw frosty ties by sending U.S. teens to China
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More than 235,500 Chinese study in the United States
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Can these "teen diplomats" succeed where presidents have failed?
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