Across America

SCREEN TIME

Ted Hope (left), executive director of the San Francisco Film Society, is joined by Hong Kong director and screenwriter Gilitte Pik Chi Leung and Jeff Leung, head of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in San Francisco, at the opening of the film society's Hong Kong Cinema Festival in San Francisco on Sept 21. Gilitte Leung's feature Love Me Not, about the complexities and sexual tension in a friendship set against changing cultural mores was among the films screened during the three-day festival. Chen Jia / China Daily

PENTAGON VIEW

David Berteau, director of the international-security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, comments on a speech by Kathleen Hicks (at lectern), US principal deputy undersecretary of defense for policy, at a seminar Monday in Washington titled US Forward Presence in the Asia-Pacific Region. Sun Chenbei / China Daily