BEIJING (May 3, 2012) — United States Ambassador to China Gary Locke spoke with media Thursday regarding the dissident Chen Guangcheng, who escaped custody to the U.S. Embassy and brokered a deal with the Chinese government to let he and his family apply for student status in New York where he would heal from torture but not make the United States home and never asked for asylum at the Embassy.

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The Art of Zhen Shan Ren International Art Exhibition of Ancient Traditions Increasingly important in Turbulent Modern Times will be held May 2-4, 2012 at Coffman Memorial Union - Great Hall, 300 Washington Ave SE  Minneapolis, MN 55455.

The Art of Zhen, Shan, Ren, opens an intimate window into ancient and contemporary China. The works reveal the traditional Chinese culture based around mind and body cultivation (self-improvement) and living in harmony with nature. With moral improvement, a resilient inner beauty arises. The re-emergence of this tradition in China has come through in the recent popularity of Falun Gong over the past 2 decades.

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U.S. – China Business Connections will hold its next Networking and Breakfast Meeting on Wednesday, May 2, 2012, from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. in the McNamara Center of Dunwoody College, 818 Dunwoody Blvd., Minneapolis, MN 55403.

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Joan Brzezinski, executive director of the University’s China Center and Confucius Institute.

Joan Brzezinski has been named executive director of the University of Minnesota’s China Center and Confucius Institute.

Brzezinski has been the interim director of the China Center while serving in her permanent position as director of the Confucius Institute. In this new position, she will oversee all projects and programming within both units, including fundraising for China initiatives and identifying opportunities to expand the University system’s relationships in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

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MINNEAPOLIS (March 13, 2012) — U.S. China Business Connections Group on Tuesday announced the appointment of three new board members.

Su Ye, an agricultural economist and China Trade representative for the Minnesota Dept. of Agriculture; Kei Cheung, a business leader with experience at Pentair, Hutchinson Tech and General Electric; and Sidney Leung, owner of Vantage Inc., an Edina based import export company, all bring extensive backgrounds bridging relations with China.

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WASHINGTON (March 13, 2012) — U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk on Tuesday announced that the United States has requested consultations with the People’s Republic of China at the World Trade Organization concerning China’s unfair export restraints on rare earths, as well as tungsten and molybdenum.

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Washington, D.C. (March 6, 2012) — Vice President Joseph Biden, along with U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary John Bryson, today welcomed congressional passage of legislation clarifying the Department of Commerce’s ability to apply countervailing duties (CVDs) on subsidized imports from non-market economies, including China.

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Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Melanne Verveer and U.S. Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Rosemary DiCarlo, participate in the U.S.-China Panel on Rural Women and Sustainable Development led by UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet in New York, New York, on February 27, 2012. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9, 2012—Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that government and industry leaders from the United States and China will gather in Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday, Feb. 16, for the first U.S.-China Agricultural Symposium. Vilsack traveled to China for the second time as Agriculture Secretary in November to continue to strengthen bilateral trade relations and support the American brand of agriculture throughout the Asia Pacific region. During the visit, Vilsack and Chinese officials developed the U.S.-China Agriculture Symposium as a key forum to expand their discussions into 2012 and beyond.

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NEW YORK (Feb. 13, 2012) — Falun Dafa Information Center  has comprised a list of “10 things to know as Xi Jinping visits the United States.”

As future Chinese Communist Party-head Xi Jinping arrives in the United States, the Falun Dafa Information Center is publishing a list of ten key facts to know about China and urging U.S. officials not to remain silent in the face of what members of Congress have called “one of the most unjust and cruel persecutions of our times.”

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