The two governments on Wednesday announced the creation of a joint research center to develop clean energy sources. Chu's lengthy speech ran past the allotted time for questions from the students.
This 19-year-old physics freshman, surnamed Kang, says he would have asked Chu whether the U.S. plans to share its latest technology to combat climate change.  
Kang says this is important because the technological level in many countries still lags behind that of the United States.
Technology is not the main issue for this 25-year-old graduate student, surnamed Han, who is in Tsinghua's Built Environment Department.

To her, it is a matter of changing personal habits and attitudes. She points out that Chinese people, on average, use less energy than Americans.
Han says for example, Americans use clothes dryers and dishwashers - all electric appliances. She says Chinese people like to hang their clothes to naturally and wash their dishes by hand.

At the same time, she says she is impressed with Chu, a Chinese-American Nobel Prize winner whose parents both graduated from Tsinghua University. She says if the U.S. and Chinese governments do cooperate to fight global warming, it can only be a good thing.

(Source: VOA)