Scott Kennedy, the United States, senior adviser of the Trustee Chair in Chinese Business & Economics of the Center for Strategic and International Studies

Scott Kennedy, senior adviser of the Trustee Chair in Chinese Business & Economics of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, talks to a China Daily reporter in Wuzhen, East China's Zhejiang province, on Oct 20, 2019. [Photo/chinadaily.com.cn]

"I've been coming to China for over 30 years. When I first came here, there was no internet. Communicating with the rest of the world was a lot harder. It would take a couple of weeks for a letter to go from China to the United States or any other direction. Now we are much more closely interconnected. I can send a message to my family very quickly and they can do the same to me in real time."