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Washington STAR DIPLOMACY Former NBA star Yao Ming chats with Cheng Li (right), director of the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings, and William Antholis, a senior fellow at Brookings, after a talk on sports and cultural diplomacy on March 28 at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. Chen Weihua / China Daily |
Gaithersburg, MD DC FILM FESTIVAL Yibin Cai (center), director of the DC Chinese Film Festival, addresses the festival's press conference on March 30 in Gaithersburg, Maryland as codirectors Echo Xie (left) and Meng Li (right) look on. The festival, which invites film entries from the US, the Chinese mainland, Taiwan and the Chinese Diaspora, will take place from Sept 4 to 7. So far 108 entries have been submitted this year. Cai Chunying / China Daily |
Chang Liu / China Daily |
Rockville, MD SISTERHOOD LEFT: Brigitta Mullican (left), president of the Rockville Sister City Corporation, and Bing Huang, board member of the organization, hold a traditional Chinese painting by Huang during a wine tasting and art auction fundraiser for promoting the City of Rockville's sister-city relationship with Jiaxing, Zhejiang province in China. ABOVE: An exhibit displays some of the interaction between Rockville and Jiaxing. Chang Liu / China Daily |
(China Daily USA 04/04/2014 page9)
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