Complementary Partners

Five decades on,China’s relationship with Latin American and Caribbean countries is growing stronger The trade volume between China and Latin American and Caribbean countries has surpassed$100 billion,     

Movies walking the tightrope between East and West

The Bridges of Madison County deeply touched the American and Chinese audiences a number of years ago. Even though it moved both the American and Chinese audiences to tears.     

Universal Humor

Translators bring American comedy to Chinese netizens With American talk shows gaining popularity in China,Guo Xiaohui,a talk-show lover and researcher on stateside politics and culture living in Beijing,is rendering subtitles of programs such as The Daily Show and The Colbert Report into Chinese and posting China-related pieces on his Weibo and Tencent     

Beijing Press Conference of American WWⅡ POWs Memorial Visiting Group

Organized by the Truth Council for WWⅡ in Asia,a 10-member delegation of American WWⅡ POWs and their relatives visited China,during which they gave a press conference at the CPAFFC on May 25. The American veterans spread friendship between the American and Chinese people,and the love of world peace by reviewing history and sharing their experience during WWⅡ. Journalists and photographers from dozens of news agencies,namely Xinhua News Agency,People's Daily,CCTV,Beijing Youth Daily,Reuters,etc. attended the conference.     

China Can’t Go American

正Is China taking the American path to consumerist dystopia? Behold the Americanization of China: fast food, plentiful portions, obesity and SUVs that eat up a whole hutong's pathway. Across several dimensions of society, the Middle Kingdom is hurtling toward the American standard-the good life promised to Chinese people by American films and television series.     

Overcoming Barriers

Oscar-nominated American writer-director duo Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s East-meets-West documentary American Factory, the first film produced by Barack and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground Productions, puts the spotlight on Fuyao Glass America, the auto glass maker that bought General Motors' abandoned plant in Dayton, Ohio, and started its own factory there in 2015.     

Premiere of The Fountain of Tears a Huge Success

WORLD famous American choreographer-director and ballet master Ben Stevenson is the only overseas honorary professor at the Beijing Institute of Dancing, and the Shenyang Conservatory of Music. Since 1978 he has, on behalf of the American government, made regular yearly visits to China on cultural     

Trading up

China and Latin American countries will benefit from a strengthened relationshipchinese President Hu Jintao paid state visits to three Latin American countries in mid-November. During his visits, Hu     

Building a Bridge To China

<正>Annual competition promotes Chinese language and culture while forging friendships the world over wearing a white cowboy hat,a checkered shirt tucked in around his blue denim jeans and scuff-less burnished tan boots, Grant Gilreath, an American college student from Tennessee studying at UCLA, is the quintessential image of an American cowboy. He even has a small American flag hanging from his left shirt pocket.     

Corporate Climate Change

The American Chamber of Commerce, the People's Republic of China (AmCham-China) and the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai recently released "American Corporate Experience in a Changing China: Insights From AmCham Business Climate Surveys, 1999-2005." Excerpts of the report follow:     

Teachers Are Human Bridges

American teachers participating in a program designed to encourage and facilitate teaching and learning about Asia give their take on a tour of China.     

From West Virginia to Xi''''an

I first began to learn about Xi'an from three Chinese men who were visit ing scholars at my university in the USA. They were studying American business, and I tutored them in English conversation and American culture. We became good friends during their six months' stay in my hometown of Morgantown, West Virginia.     

Friendship Activities in Brief

More than 40 people from the Department of American and Oceanian Affairs of the CPAFFC and the Citibank Beijing Branch went to the     

Breaking the Ice

Relations between the United States and Latin American countries are warming up,but controversies remain Tensions between the United States and its long-term     

LETTERS

I would like to tell you my story and hope you will find it interesting.My maternal grandmother's ancestors left China and all its traditions several generations ago. Though I live in the United States, go to an American school and am thoroughly assimilated into the American way of life, I am still proud of my heritage, however remote. I honor it by learning the erhu, or traditional Chinese violin, taking Putongua lessons, and studying Chinese history.     

Captives Abuse Scandal Not Accidental

After the abuse of POWs and prisoners by US army in Iraq was brought to the day light in May, the worldwide denunciation silenced what the US was bragging about its support for human rights. The inhumane and brutal means used by the US army to torture Iraqi POWs and prisoners have gone to an alarming proportion. Photographs published show American soldiers—men and women—smiling, laughing or giving thumbs-up signs alongside naked Iraqi prisoners, exposing the sadistic and brutal methods employed by American forces and providing more evi-     

Home Is Where the Heart Is—— Nostalgic Tales of China-Born Americans

Executive Editor:Liu Fangnian Price:RMB 80Paperback,210 pages Published by Foreign Languages PressBORN in China is the companion book to the documentary Made in China by American i lmmaker John Helde,which tells the story of expatriate American children growing up in pre-Mao China,and the cultural and political experiences that shaped their lives.I came across the documentary purely by     

The Unsocial Network

正Social media provides a wealth of opportunities, and risks, in promoting goods and services One American event organizer who used Facebook to successfully promote and recruit sponsors for     

CPAFFC President Chen Haosu Gives Lecture on Nongovernmental Diplomacy to US University Students

At the invitation of China International Travel Service, on the afternoon of May 22, an American international exchange delegation visited the CPAFFC. The delegation, which consists of nearly 80 American students, is organized by the American Envision Program. CPAFFC President Chen Haosu met with the delegation and gave a lecture on China's non-governmental diplomacy.     

Reversing Course

Latin American countries' nationalization of their energy resources raises concern in the international energy market Recently, some Latin American countries have adopted policies to nationalize their natural resources, steps that have profound implications for the international energy market, especially the oil market, and have aroused widespread concern in the international community. The initiative was taken mainly in resource-rich countries and targeted largely at oil and natural gas companies. Latin America