Making a point — WASHINGTON

From left: Brain Katulis, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress (CAP); Yang Jiemian, senior fellow and chairman of the Council of Academic Affairs at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS); Rudi deLeon, a senior fellow at CAP; Wu Chusi, a senior fellow at SIIS, and moderator Vikram Singh, vice president of National Security and International Policy at CAP, at a seminar held at CAP on Monday exploring China-US cooperation in the Middle East. Chen Weihua / CHINA DAILY