Chen Weihua is the Chief Washington Correspondent of China Daily and Deputy Editor of China Daily USA. He is also a columnist, with a particular focus on US politics and US-China relations.
When China's Central Military Commission Vice-Chairman Fan Changlong led a high-level delegation to the United States last week, the news media mostly focused their attention on the thorny issues of the South China Sea and cyber security.
China is adopting a more welcoming attitude for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a US-led free-trade agreement now being negotiated by 12 countries.
While cyber hacking and the South China Sea continued to dominate headlines regarding China and the US over the past week, news came that Evan Medeiros, senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council, stepped down last Thursday.
When senior US officials point fingers at China over maritime territorial disputes in the South China Sea - more recently at China's land-reclamation activities there - many Chinese see the criticism as having an ulterior motivation.
For China, South American countries are the farthest away in geographical distance, but the Chinese like the quote "a bosom friend afar brings a distant land near" by Tang Dynasty poet Wang Bo 1,300 years ago to describe the friendship.
A front page story in the Sunday edition of The Washington Post details how the US government has been waging a propaganda war in its efforts to defeat and degrade the Islamic State.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been invited to address a joint session of US Congress on April 29, making Abe, widely regarded a right-wing politician, the first Japanese prime minister to speak to the two houses.
For the past week or so, a growing number of US allies in Europe, from Britain to Germany to Italy and Luxembourg chose to defy Washington's warning of staying away from the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), first initiated by China in 2013.
An editor and writer at China Daily USA in New York, William Hennelly is a print and digital media veteran. He previously was managing editor of TheStreet.com financial news website in New York, and has worked at daily newspapers in New Jersey. Hennelly is a journalism graduate of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
General manager of China Daily USA's San Francisco bureau. Based in the Bay Area, she covers a wide range of topics including corporate news, Silicon Valley innovation, US-China cooperation in various forms and profiles of interesting personalities, as well as overseeing office operations.
A copy editor and writer with China Daily USA in New York, Chris Davis is a graduate of the University of Virginia and served two years as a volunteer with the United States Peace Corps in Kenya.
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