China remained the No 1 emitter of carbon-based pollution in 2012, even though its world-leading increase was among the smallest the country has recorded in the past decade, according to the International Energy Agency.
State limits on foreign ownership of farmland and concerns over US pork exports to Japan have emerged as possible challenges to a Chinese company's planned $4.7 billion takeover of industrial hog farmer Smithfield Foods Inc.
After months of accusing the Chinese of cyber espionage, the US itself is struggling with a series of allegations that its government has been engaging in massive intelligence gathering, concerning both its own citizens and people in other parts of the world.
The "shirtsleeve summit" outside of Washington between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Barack Obama produced - even if no official agreements - concrete results, many say, and the historic meeting, years from now, will be viewed as a milestone in US-China relations.
With commencement season here, many Chinese parents have booked travel to the US to watch their daughters and sons make their academic transitions in life.
The Chinese University Alumni Alliance functions as a platform for exchanges between Chinese alumni of North America universities and Chinese universities.
"Every video I watched, the styles were slightly different," Wei-Chia Su said at a news conference with Eliot Feld and fellow dancer Wu-Kang Chen.
In a Saturday morning meeting that lasted twice as long as scheduled, California Governor Jerry Brown and his wife Anne Gust Brown sat down with Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan.
As China has stepped up its efforts to expand "soft power," or so-called cultural capital, US arts organizations and artists have rushed to fill the demand for cross-cultural exchanges that have brought American performers to China, and vice versa.
As head of the Confucius Institute at UCLA, Susan Pertel Jain has reasons to be enthusiastic: a new play involving young people from Los Angeles and Hangzhou, and Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit this week to Southern California.
Canada, which now enjoys significant trade relations with China, will continue to benefit from a growing confidence in the US-China relationship, Canadian Minister of International Trade Ed Fast and University of Toronto professor Wendy Dobson said in remarks ahead of the meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama in California this week.
The two-day summit meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama has a personal connection for Muscatine, Iowa resident Sarah Lande.
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