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.
Despite intense pressure from the mayor of Osaka and Japanese Prime Minister Abe, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee on Nov 22 signed a resolution unanimously passed by the board of supervisors to officially adopt the Comfort Women Memorial as city property.
Amy Xu, a resident of Northern California's Marin County, is a frequent visitor to the Golden State's wine country - Napa Valley and Sonoma in particular. Less than an hour's drive from her home, the vineyards, wineries and moments of sipping wine in the sun are "what heaven should look like to me", said the businesswoman in her 50s.
A sketchy announcement in September that the Chinese government is working on a timetable to phase out production and sales of traditional energy vehicles has added fuel to the already fierce competition among electric-vehicle manufacturers worldwide.
Although there are uncertainties and maybe setbacks ahead, China and the US need to facilitate cooperation and reduce friction because this bilateral relationship is the most consequential of its kind in the world.
Chinese believe travel and meeting with different people can expand one's vision and improve understanding and trust. That long-held belief is exemplified in the Chinese saying, "It's better to travel 10,000 miles than to read 1,000 books."
A series of sad and tragic incidents involving Chinese students and tourists in the US have raised concerns about the safety of overseas Chinese in the US.
An official at the Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board said her organization's forecast early this year on inbound Chinese tourists to the City of Angels seemed "outdated".
Gracie Li holds her breath, eyes wide open, as she follows the intense plots on Friday night of The Red Sorghum, a dance drama adapted from Nobel Prize laureate Mo Yan's 1986 novel and brought to the US by the Qingdao Song and Dance Theatre from Shandong province.
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.
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.
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.