DHAKA: US First Lady Michelle Obama stepped out for her second full-day in Beijing stressing the importance of education, in particularly studying abroad, as well as encouraging young adults to embrace freedom of speech, which she said is a ‘birthright’.

She also noted the stake the US and China have in one another’s success.

At the Stanford Centre at Peking University, a partnership between two of the most prestigious universities in the US and China respectively, on Saturday morning, Obama talked about the importance of freedom of speech and the importance of ideas flowing freely over the Internet and through the media.

‘When it comes to expressing yourself freely, and worshipping as you choose, and having open access to information, we believe those are universal rights that are the birthright of every person on this planet,’ she told an audience of about 200 US and Chinese students, reports The Straits Times.

BDST: 1715 HRS, MAR 22, 2014