A Danish prince haunted by his father's ghost. A delusional Spanish knight jousting with windmills. A Chinese beauty falling into an enchanted dream next to a Peony Pavilion.
It takes about 20 Chinese parents, 11 elementary schools throughout the Bay Area and a small army of volunteers to stage the series of celebrations planned for the upcoming Chinese New Year, or the Lunar New Year, which will fall on Jan 28.
It looks like China and the US share a phenomenon of the internet age: dinosaur malls.
The situation on the Korean Peninsula has deteriorated after the Democratic People's Republic of Korea proclaimed on Sunday that it had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb.
US President Donald Trump warned that "all options" are again on the table on Tuesday after Pyongyang tested another ballistic missile in three days, this time a rare firing of a projectile over mainland Japan.
The US administration says it welcomes foreign investment, but it is politicizing Chinese foreign direct investment yet again. Perhaps the US is paranoid about Chinese FDI. An example of its paranoia about Chinese FDI was the Securities and Exchange Commission’s order on Aug 9 to put an indefinite hold on a $20 million acquisition of the Chicago Stock Exchange by a group of buyers led by Chongqing Casin Enterprise Group.
As the tragedy of Hurricane Harvey continues to unfold in Texas and Louisiana, US public health officials are already alerting people about the suite of ills that come along with flood waters, woes that are common to floods the world over.
My friends in and outside of America last week kept bombarding me with safety reminders to stay vigilant because there was going to be a right-wing Patriot Prayer rally on Aug 26 in San Francisco.
Having lived in Washington DC for almost five years, I have seen the city growing, with new construction and renovation projects happening in many streets and neighborhoods.
The saying goes that everything is bigger in Texas, which could describe the ambitions of the new China-focused think tank about to open at the University of Texas.
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.
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.
US President Donald Trump visits China
