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?"