Chen Weihua is the Chief Washington Correspondent of China Daily and Deputy Editor of China Daily USA. He has a particular focus on US politics and US-China relations.
Unlike the US which still lives in the Cold War era, maintaining more than 1,000 military bases all over the world manned by hundreds of thousands of soldiers, China has no such ambition.
The Shanghai authorities may no longer believe they have the capability to manage and control crowds during festival-celebrating events.
Japan's invasion and occupation of its neighboring countries caused widespread suffering and loss during the war, but Abe has questioned whether Japan's actions constituted aggression.
Joseph Stiglitz, one of the world's most influential economists today, sounded stern warnings to US policy and lawmakers in his article "China Century" in the January edition of Vanity Fair magazine.
The US Senate report on the CIA's torture methods that was made public last week has raised some serious questions: Is the United States still practicing or will continue practicing water-boarding, sleep depriving and other appalling torture techniques?
For the US to try and discredit China while ignoring its own wrongdoings is just like calling torture enhanced interrogation techniques.
Why does the US seem to have a position on the two banks before the two institutions have even been formally launched.
The sad reality is that every African-American, including Obama, has experienced some kind of racial discrimination in their lives.
The Chinese government has actively sought the cooperation of foreign governments, including the US, in tracking down these fugitives from justice.
Obama's trip produced many important agreements, ranging from climate change to a military-to-military confidence building mechanism.
The US should focus on working with China, instead of lecturing China and telling China what to do.
There has been at least one day in each of the past 23 years when the United States has been the most isolated country in the world.