Outside the White House compound on the evening of Aug 5, an American woman displayed tens of thousands of colorful paper cranes in strings placed on the ground in front of her.
Reaching a consensus on building a new world order may be a lengthy process, but people in the 21st century are knowledgeable and conscious enough not to fall into the old trap of power struggle.
The US authorities are under growing pressure at home to ferret out the perpetrators, but making China a scapegoat is not the answer.
Notably, the balance between China's strategic momentum and caution plays a central role in deciding the country's strategic focus.
While meteorologists and skiers debate about Beijing being a wintery enough city to host the Winter Olympics, a storm of a different kind has been brewing on the Internet over one of the official anthems Beijing commissioned for the games.
The International Monetary Fund is scheduled to formally meet later this year to review whether to include the Chinese currency in its Special Drawing Rights (SDR) basket.
China and Japan have been suffering from diplomatic stagnation for years due to rising tensions over the sovereignty of Diaoyu Island after Japan and then Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda unilaterally announced the "nationalization" of the island in 2012.
Despite Chinese consumers' unceasing ardor for Apple iPhones, two homegrown companies - Xiaomi and Huawei - have recently overtaken the California kingpin in smart phone market share in China.
After waiting about a day, we finally received permission to visit the Jazeera Palace Hotel in Mogadishu on Wednesday.
The failure of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks to reach a final deal last Friday in Maui, Hawaii, contrasted sharply with the optimistic mood in Washington early in the week among some officials and pundits that the largest US trade pact since the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) will be sealed.