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July 17, 2014
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe was at the Purdue Foods Inc's cold-storage export facility on Thursday in Norfolk, witnessing poultry products that were being loaded and shipped to China. It will be the first shipment of poultry products leaving the facility for China after a ban was lifted by China in May. The ban was imposed by China in 2007 following low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) that was reported in a Virginia farm. China is now one of the top foreign markets for US poultry and bought more than $416 million last year.
May 31, 2014
USCSS is a two-day event that brought Chinese and US college students together for various activities, including travel to Chinese cities, speeches, campus visits to Chinese universities and small-group discussions. Prior to the summit, delegations explored Shanghai and Beijing, for cultural experiences, visits to local businesses and school tours for 10 days.
July 18, 2014
A delegation of senior level Chinese government officials and banking executives started a week-long executive training program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business this week. This is part of the delegation's three-week visit to the US, which also include a few days in the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento to explore financial regulation and management at the state and local level and technological innovations in payments systems. Then they will travel to Washington, DC to meet with senior representatives at numerous government agencies and international organizations.
July 10, 2014
Seeking to put the best face on a difficult relationship with Beijing, Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that the United States and China could find ways to manage their differences and had more in common than not. Neither side wanted to fall into the “trap of zero sum competition,” Mr. Kerry said at the conclusion of an annual strategic and economic dialogue between top officials of the two countries. The array of topics with some areas of agreement — climate change, Iran, North Korea and Afghanistan — attested to the viability of the relationship, he said.
May 15, 2014
With a population of about 300,000, Toledo is just one of many cities in the US and across the globe that flies largely under the radar. Deindustrialisation hit Toledo hard; the local newspaper, the Toledo Blade, counts 140 factories that have closed since 2000 alone. But beyond the plant closings and the civic struggles, today Toledo is making positive global headlines for something other than shuttered malls and urban decay: for the millions of dollars in Chinese investment it is attracting. Chinese investor groups have bought the Park Inn Hotel and Seagate Hotel downtown.
June 6, 2014
The championship series of the National Basketball Association (NBA) is underway, and this year the league has introduced a number of initiatives for its global audience, including for social media sites in China and other countries.
May 19, 2014
The U.S. dramatically escalated its battle to curb China’s technology theft from American companies by accusing five Chinese military officials of stealing trade secrets, casting the hacker attacks as a direct economic threat. The indictment effectively accuses China and its government of a vast effort to mine U.S. technology through cyber-espionage, stealing jobs as well as the innovation on which the success of major global companies like United States Steel Corp. (X) and Alcoa Corp. (AA) depends. While hundreds of U.S.
July 16, 2014
Admiral Jonathan Greenert, the chief of operations of the U.S. Navy, is currently in China consulting with his counterpart on increasing naval cooperation between the navies of the United States and China. Greenert met Adm. Wu Shengli, commander in chief of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), on Tuesday. The two focused their discussions on expanding cooperation and communication between the navies of China and the United States amid growing tensions in the East and South China Seas.
July 9, 2014
The former NBA star, a Chinese basketball icon, is working with top American and Chinese officials to stamp out global trade in endangered species and their parts. Yao, who retired from basketball in 2011, has focused much of his efforts against shark fin consumption and elephant ivory use.
July 18, 2014
IBM Corp has signed an agreement with the city of Beijing to use advanced weather forecasting and cloud computing technologies to help tackle the Chinese capital's persistent smog.