Across Americas
| Houston fond farewell Chinese Consul General Xu Erwen (right), who is leaving her post shortly, traveled to Atlanta to say goodbye to former US president Jimmy Carter on April 9. Provided To China Daily |
| New York extra credit Zhang Meifang (second from right), deputy consul general, talking to students from Ramapo College in New Jersey at the Consulate General of the China in New York on Thursday. The students are studying Chinese history and politics this semester. Hu Haidan / China Daily |
| Washington resource rush David Lampton (right), director of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), introduces Elizabeth Economy, senior fellow and director for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, before her talk about her new book By All Means Necessary: How China's Resource Quest is Changing the World at an SAIS China Forum on Wednesday in Washington. Liu Chang / China Daily |
| New York dynamic duo Stephen Roach, a professor at Yale, signs copies of his book Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China following a discussion of it on Wednesday at the Asia Society headquarters in New York. Jack Freifelder / China Daily |
| Toronto multicultural home Michael Chan, Ontario Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport, speaks at the Cultural Heritage Weekend at the ROM on April 13. He says that the ROM is a place of multicultural home, China's Forbidden City celebrates the ROM's 100th Anniversary here, it shows the important relationship that China and Ontario share. Li Na/ China Daily |
| strategy session The Center for Strategic and International Studies held a presentation on China's Economic Policymaking at a Time of Transition Tuesday morning. Panelists included, from left: Christopher K. Johnson, senior adviser and Freeman chair in China Studies, CSIS; Matthew P. Goodman, William E. Simon chair in Political Economy, CSIS; Kevin G. Nealer, principal of The Scowcroft Group; Olin Wethington, former assistant secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs and special envoy to China; and David Dollar, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former Treasury and World Bank representative in China. Liu Chang / China Daily |
| Toronto eye-dotting ceremony Guests join the Eye-dotting ceremony at the Chinese Cultural Heritage Weekend at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) on Sunday in Toronto. From left: Dr Ming-Tat Cheung, chairman and president of the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto; Michael Chan, Ontario minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport; David Zimmer, Ontario minister of Aboriginal Affairs; Li Fang, Chinese consul general in Toronto; Janet Carding, director and CEO of ROM; Dr Chen Shen, vice-president and head of World Cultures Department at ROM. Li Na/ China Daily |
(China Daily USA 04/18/2014 page12)
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