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.
Monday morning's shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, in which 13 people, including the shooter, were killed, left two other major happenings of the day largely unnoticed as cable news networks went into overdrive to cover the rampage.
Unlike the vote in the British Parliament on Aug 29, which rejected Prime Minister David Cameron's proposal for airstrikes against Syria, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Wednesday gave the green light to President Barack Obama for military action.
While China's role in Africa is often controversial in the West and China-US ties in the continent often called contentious, two papers released last week shed light on the vexing issues.
Saturday morning saw the gathering of tens of thousands of people in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC to mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
News in the past two days that Texas state senator Wendy Davis may run for governor of the Lone Star State has been a reminder of how controversial the issue of abortion still is in the modern day US.
Little wonder that a Pew Research Center survey released last week came as a big surprise. It shows that 36 percent of young American adults aged 18-31 - the so-called Millennial generation - were living in their parents' home in 2012.
The United States and China - the world's two largest economies - are both facing a tough fight on their own home fronts: ever widening income gaps between the haves and the have nots.
The protests that erupted in more than 100 US cities last weekend over a court verdict reminded many Americans that racial tensions still exist four and half years after Barack Obama became the first African American president in US history.
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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