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.
It was unusual for a gathering of pundits in Washington to heap praise only on a Chinese leader. Yet that was the case on Jan 9 at the Brookings Institution when they talked about former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji.
The United States' pivot-to-Asia-Pacific strategy has been perceived by many both in and outside China as an attempt to contain China or curtail its rapid rise in the region and globally.
The Hollywood movie Unbroken, produced and directed by Angelina Jolie, reached movie theaters across the United States on Dec 25, just a day after right-wing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was re-elected to a third term.
Joseph Stiglitz, one of the world's most influential economists today, sounded some serious warnings to US policy and law makers in his article China Century in the latest Vanity Fair magazine.
Since the Senate report on CIA torture was made public last week, it has raised some serious questions, such as whether the United States is still practicing or will continue to practice water-boarding, sleep deprivation and other appalling interrogation techniques, especially in a time of imminent threat to national security.
The US Senate passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill late Saturday night that will avoid a partial government shutdown, but what was missing for the rest of the world was a long-awaited ratification for International Monetary Fund (IMF) 2010 Quota and Governance Reforms.
Former US Senator Jim Talent from Missouri was a senior policy adviser for Mitt Romney during the latter's 2008 and 2012 run for president. On Monday, he was introduced as the US defense minister if Romney had won the elections.
For Chinese coming to the United States, crossing streets and driving on highways in American cities is much less of a hair-raising experience.
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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