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Tibetan mask dance

Dancers perform a Chinese Tibetan mask dance in front of Capitol Hill in the 16th Chinese Culture Festival in Washington on Oct 31.Pan Jialiang / For China Daily

Pentagon addresses South China Sea

Captain Jeff Davis (left), director of press operations for the US Department of Defense (DOD), gave briefi ngs about to a group of foreign reporters at the Foreign Press Center in Washington on Wednesday. When asked about the South China Sea controversy, Davis described the USS Lassen's controversial voyage as a freedom of navigation operation, "not innocent passage." Zhang Yue / China Daily

Mastering Chinese language

Colleen Mulrooney, the winner of the fi fth Jiangsu Cup Chinese Speaking Contest, a freshman at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, answers a question from a judge during her improvised speech at George Washington University in Washington on Nov 1. Pan Jialiang / For China Daily

Bernanke discusses Fed policy

Ben S. Bernanke, former chairman of the US Federal Reserve, gives a keynote speech about Fed policy in an international context at the International Monetary Fund in Washington on Thursday. Zhang Yue / China Dail