Students at Tsinghua University had mixed feelings on what they thought of Mr Bush but found him ill-informed on the Taiwan issue. 'My impression was not good, especially about how he answered the questions,' student Huang Rui said.
During a question-and-answer session, Ms Huang asked Mr Bush why, when discussing Taiwan issues, he always used terms such as 'peaceful settlement' and not 'peaceful unification'.
Mr Bush's speech was 'too preachy', said another student, Zhang Jing, who asked him whether US politicians had a lot of misconceptions about China.
The two women, both graduate students at the university's International Centre for Communication Studies, were picked by Mr Bush to ask him questions during the session, which was televised nationwide.
Both students said they had come up with their own questions and had not been screened by government officials. Asked what they thought of Mr Bush's speech on American values, religious freedom and Taiwan, they said they thought he had evaded the issues and spoken in a tone that was too US-centred.
'He kept on saying how good America was. The feeling is like America is the best so we all need to be like [it],' Ms Zhang said.
The students were particularly disappointed with his answer on Taiwan, which, to them, had been the most critical topic of all.
