A pair of Chinese giant pandas landed here for a 10-year stay on Sunday, enabling locals to refresh decades-old bonds after a gap of nearly two years. "The flight was very, very smooth. And they were comfortable ... they slept a lot and they ate a lot," said Zoo Atlanta's Vice President of Animal Health Sam Rivera, who traveled with the pair on the chartered flight.
A small piece of metal from a Doolittle Raid bomber during World War II was reunited on Monday with fragments from its sister aircraft, reviving memories of a heroic rescue that has linked China and the United States for more than eight decades.
China and the United States have reached an arrangement to reciprocally reduce tariffs on about $30 billion worth of goods from each side, with tariffs on around 90 percent of products covered to be lowered to most-favored-nation rates, the Ministry of Commerce announced on Monday.
Chinese President Xi Jinping's just-concluded U.S. state visit has led to new progress toward building a constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability based on respect, fairness and reciprocity.
Former Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya, head of Japan's Association for the Promotion of International Trade, a group for friendship with China, led a delegation to China and arrived in Beijing on Sunday amid strained bilateral relations, according to Japanese media outlets.
Beneath rows of towering ship-to-shore cranes at the Port of Los Angeles, containers rise from massive vessels and move toward trucks and rail lines that fan out across the United States. Ships berth, cranes swing, trucks queue and freight trains pull inland in a steady rhythm at one of the busiest container gateways in the Western Hemisphere.
Public attitude in the United States toward China has improved in recent times, with a growing number of US citizens favoring engagement with China over efforts to limit its growth, according to two major survey reports released ahead of Thursday's meeting between President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC.
As Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, met on Thursday at the White House under global gaze, they reached many new common understandings, providing fresh strategic guidance for the world's most important bilateral relationship.
Japan, the US and South Korea are preparing a memorandum on Arctic maritime cooperation and expanded energy supplies, Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun reported on Sunday. The Japanese newspaper framed the initiative as an effort to strengthen the three countries' economic security amid what it described as intensifying competition with China and Russia over Arctic shipping routes and resources.
Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng will lead a delegation to the US for economic and trade consultations with the US side from September 19 to 23, the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) announced on Saturday.
