{"id":89,"date":"2002-09-19T17:37:34","date_gmt":"2002-09-20T01:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2002\/09\/19\/world-leaders-trained-on-us-campuses\/"},"modified":"2002-09-19T17:37:34","modified_gmt":"2002-09-20T01:37:34","slug":"world-leaders-trained-on-us-campuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/09\/19\/world-leaders-trained-on-us-campuses","title":{"rendered":"World Leaders Trained on US Campuses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s another reason the American university is such a strategic mission field\u2013there are about 14,000,000 university students attending college in America and almost 4% of them are from other nations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The most recent statistics I could find show that over half of them are from Asia and 7% are from the Middle East<\/a>. Many of these nations forbid any sort of missionary work\u2013but they send their future leaders here to be trained! In fact, the Navigators claim that 7 of the top 10 countries that send students to the U.S. are closed to typical misssionary efforts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s impressive enough, but I\u2019ll up the ante even further. I\u2019ve heard that every major world leader except Saddam Hussein has studied in America, but I wasn\u2019t able to verify that claim. What I can do is list of some of the world leaders trained on United States campuses. Imagine the potential world impact of reaching the future leaders of the world today (incidentally, I have a related essay focused on America<\/a>)! The political scene is so tumultuous that I won\u2019t bother pretending this is current. Assume that they\u2019re possibly out of power unless you hear their names on the news.<\/i><\/p>\n

Ehud Barak, Former Israeli Prime Minister, Stanford
\nAlejandro Toledo, president of Peru, Stanford
\nBenjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister, MIT
\nBenizar Bhutto, first female Prime Minister of Pakistan, Harvard U
\nCarlos Salinas, president of Mexico, Harvard U
\nLien Chan, Premier of Taiwan, University of Chicago
\nLee Teng Hui, President of Taiwan, Iowa State and Cornell
\nSaud Al-Fasial, Foreign Minister of Saudia Arabia, Princeton
\nAdul Al-Awadi, Kuwaiti Minister of State, Harvard
\nKai-Wen Mao, Chinese Minister of Education, UC Berkeley and Carnegie-Mellon
\nDhoukan Al-Hindawi, Deputy Prime Minister of Jordan, University of Maryland
\nOsama al-Baz, Chief Advisor to President Mubarak in Egypt, Harvard
\nBir Birkram Sha Dev Birenda, King of Nepal, Harvard
\nTahir al-Masri, Prime Minister of Jordan, University of North Texas
\nYosuko Matsuoka, Foreign Minister of Japan, University of Oregon<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t have to imagine the potential impact, ministry to international students has already had worldwide ramifications. Consider this telling example:<\/p>\n

A number of years ago, Hal Guffey (former president of International Students, Inc.) was speaking to a group of Christians about the opportunity to befriend international students. At the end of his talk a young lady from another country approached him. She told him that though her father had not become a Christian as a result of his student days in the U.S., nonetheless he had returned home with a favorable impression of Christians. Many years later he found himself in a position to decide whether Christian missionaries should be allowed to remain in his country. He decided they should be allowed to stay.<\/i> (source<\/a>)<\/p>\n

If you know of any others world leaders who should be on the list, let me know via the comment box!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The world sends it\u2019s leaders to America for higher education\u2013here\u2019s a list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}