Name: Founding Fathers and Confucius: An unlikely American history
Uploaded: 2026-05-18T12:18:31+08:00
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Description: US President Donald Trump's historic visit to China is a good time to recall the mark Confucius left on America.

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US President Donald Trump's historic visit to China is a good time to recall the mark Confucius left on America.

Benjamin Franklin, one of America's Founding Fathers and a prolific inventor, published the sage's quotes in newspapers himself. Today, Confucius stands immortalized on the pediment of the US Supreme Court.

If Confucius were alive today, we could ask him: "From Benjamin Franklin to the Beijing meeting, why has your influence endured?"

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