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U.S. Ambassador Jon M. Huntsman, Jr.Address to Alibaba Netrepreneur ConferenceHangzhou, ChinaSeptember 10, 2010I want to tell Jack Ma what an honor it is to be here representing the United States Embassy, representing the people of America, representing so many friends in China many of whom you trade with, invest with, youve studied with in university and schools in China and the United States. / It truly is an honor to be here in Hangzhou. I think Hangzhou is perhaps the most beautiful city in all of China. It is historic, it is sophisticated, it is culture, and it is the home of the Alibaba gathering in its 7th year in a row. And its just an unbelievable opportunity to be able to look out at so many representatives of emerging industry and business here in China. I am just so very honored to be here. You know so much more about the issues and the subject matter than I do./Personal Connection to HangzhouNow, the main reason for coming to Hangzhou today is to offer up a challenge, and it starts with many of you right here in this room. The challenge is simple, it goes like this: entrepreneurs of the world, it is time to unite. Im convinced this is a historic time for our two countries to unite around issues of innovation and the development, advancement, and protection of ideas - the fuel that fires the engines of entrepreneurs everywhere in the world, leveling the playing field, of all competitors. But first, though, let me just say how delighted I am to be here in this beautiful and historic city./We hosted late last year one of our very important trade conferences between China and the United States and we talked through a variety of market openings, IPR, information technology and service issues. All matters that I know you deal with and feel so strongly about and now I have a chance to come back and talk again about the issues that, I think, matter to you the most, the CEOs. / They are also issues on which we can make common cause for mutual gain. Our trade meetings last year are also a reminding that trade and commerce remain the sturdy backbone of the U.S.-China relationship now $400 billion strong and soon to be the largest trading and commercial relationship anywhere in the world. /Hangzhou also has a special place in the revitalized U.S.-China relationship. Were coming up in the 40th anniversary of Henry Kissingers historic visit here, the first tentative step toward re-establishing diplomatic relations between our two great countries. / At the time, 40 years ago, the negotiations were all done face to face, secret memos were passed back and forth by hand and if you wanted to look something up you had to actually read a book. There was no internet, no email, no cell phones, no Alibaba and Jack Ma was only around 5 or six years old. / President Nixon reportedly enjoyed his time here at Westlake so much he said Beijing may be Chinas capitol, but Hangzhou is the countrys heart! My Chinese friends also refer to it as Yu Mi Zhi Xiang (land of plenty)/Celebrating EntrepreneursPresident Nixons visit here was one of the great diplomatic breakthroughs in recent American history. It was a time (before many of you were born) of estrangement, not cooperation between the United States and China. Our relations were largely defined by the hostilities in Korea and Vietnam, and the conflicts between capitalism and communism. / It took visionary leadership on both sides of the Pacific to bring these two countries together and so much of that hard work happened right here in Hangzhou. Predictably, we continued to have our differences, and sometimes we still do. But those meetings, over 40 years ago, marked a signal shift in our relationship, from opposition to, at its best, genuine cooperation and mutual benefit. / But the 1970s were in many other ways a very difficult time in the United States. The Vietnam War sparked tremendous domestic upheaval. Our economy stalled, we were battered by stagflation, high unemployment and declining living standards. Beloved leaders in America had been assassinated. All around us, confidence in the American economic model was being shaken. Everywhere you looked, people were saying that America was in decline and would soon lose its leading role in the international system. Even at home, millions of Americans were ready to close our borders and turn inward./But then an interesting thing happened that we have seen in other chapters of our history. Our economy bounced back stronger than ever, thanks in large part to our fundamental belief in the powers of an open marketplace. Maybe its because we are a nation of immigrants, or maybe its because we stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, but even during the toughest times, we always believed in the power of freedom and always valued engagement over isolationism. /We welcomed tens of thousands of international students (maybe even some of you or your family members) to our universities, as we continue to do today. Students who return to their home countries armed with uniquely American ideas and approaches, planting their own seeds of innovation and enterprise. We attracted brainpower to the United States, and we still do./ Talent that helped fuel our economic engine when we needed it the most and became valued and equal members of American society. We created industry clusters where scientists and entrepreneurs could interact and exchange ideas creating incubators for future ideas and future business opportunities- this, too, continues today./ The best example and one I am sure you are all familiar with, is Silicon Valley, which not only helped launch the computer revolution but established a certain recipe for success that serves as a model for similar technology hubs throughout the world, from Brooklyn to Beijing. Our commitment to open markets and an open society resulted in a flurry of innovation and new technologies that revitalized our economy, ultimately creating some 30 million new jobs./ It was innovation, and the entrepreneurial culture that fostered it, that helped dr