Jill Swain, the 52-year-old mayor of Huntersville, North Carolina, was raised when China was mostly unknown and inaccessible to US citizens.
A study shows that citizens of emerging market countries - like China, Chile and Indonesia - are more pleased with their countries' economy than people in advanced economies.
Chinese hot pot is a cooking method that originated in Mongolia more than a millennium ago, spread in popularity over the centuries and eventually developed into a variety of regional styles. Today, people flock to hot pot restaurants in China to eat and socialize over a communal cauldron of food.
A proposed oceanic free-trade zone involving the United States and other countries with a Pacific coast has stirred debate over what it means that China isn't part of the negotiations.
China and the United States pledged on Tuesday to boost military ties during a visit to Beijing by a senior US official in preparation for a summit in June between the two countries' top leaders.
Two weeks before senators are expected to begin debate on a proposed overhaul of US immigration law, the leader of Congress' Asian-American voting bloc wants to make sure its priorities are reflected in any bill that emerges.
China's official overseer of foreign-currency reserves is considering real estate and other investments in the United States, according to American news reports.
When Capitol Hill staffer Jeanie F. Jew realized that Asian Americans had been left out of the various ethnic groups celebrated during the United States Bicentennial in 1976, she enlisted the help of Ruby Moy, administrative assistant to Rep. Frank Horton of New York.
A parallel trade agenda between China and the United States is essential for the expansion of global trade liberalization, according to the former World Bank president Robert Zoellick.
By now, the strategy has become familiar to those who follow US stock markets: Controlling shareholders and executives of Chinese companies whose stock trades in the United States respond to depressed share prices by making deals to take the companies private.
The US beer company needed a hops researcher, and the Texas resident with a doctorate in organic chemistry needed a job.
The IPO will be the first by a Chinese company in the US since social-gaming operator YY Inc went public on Nasdaq in November.
Shipping bankruptcy strands ships, roils maritime cargo industry