The Chinese and US militaries agreed on Thursday to take further measures to boost cooperation and manage differences.
Being the first Asian American woman to serve in the position of state assemblywoman and speaker pro tempore in California since 1850, Fiona Hodge Ma's passion is public service. An electorate of 70,000 put her on the San Francisco board of supervisors, and an electorate of 450,000 put her in the state assembly.
David Lampton, a prominent China scholar, has been struck by the quality of Chinese leadership from county and provincial to the national level over the past 40 years of the country's reform.
The idea of a show putting an audience to sleep usually horrifies theater directors. But Jim Findlay's surreal take on the epic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber is a real sleeper.
China remained the United States' largest foreign creditor in March, trimming holdings of US Treasuries by just $800 million while No 2 Japan dumped $10.6 billion of US debt.
Residents of a neighborhood in lower Manhattan, where last week a 68-year-old Chinese man was beaten and died from his injuries, said they have always been concerned about their safety in the area.
While competition and friction make most headlines regarding China-US relations these days, the growing cooperation in clean energy between the world's two largest economies is often unknown to the general public, CHEN WEIHUA reports from Washington.
Shipping bankruptcy strands ships, roils maritime cargo industry