Todd Chapman, principal deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs of the US State Department, talks about counter-piracy cooperation in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia in a press briefing at the Foreign Press Center in Washington on Friday afternoon. He praised China's role and commitment in the international counter-piracy cooperation. Counter-piracy cooperation has also often been cited as a bright spot in China-US military-to-military cooperation. Photo by Chen Weihua/China Daily