Across America

Veteran hand - Washington

Gary Locke (right), former US ambassador to China, talks to Chinese delegates at the 2017 Select USA Summit in Washington on Sunday. Locke said that Chinese investment in the US was important and he believes Ambassador Terry Branstad will play a vital role in promoting trade relations. Dong Leshuo / China Daily

Face to face - Washington

State Councilor Yang Jiechi and General Fang Fenghui, chief of the People's Liberation Army's Joint Staff Department, and other Chinese delegates meet US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and other US delegates on Wednesday in Washington for the inaugural China-US Diplomatic and Security Dialogue. Chen Weihua / China Daily

Green speak - Washington

Nebraska Lieutenant Governor Mike Foley delivers a keynote speech at the Roads to USA: Greenfield Investment vs Cross-Border M&A Forum held on Tuesday in Washington, sponsored by ICBC and China General Chamber of Commerce USA. Chen Weihua / China Daily

Belt and Road - New York

From left: Mark Frazier, academic director of the India China Institute at The New School; Liang Huijiang, director general of the international Finance Department of the China Development Bank; Zha Daojiong, international political economy professor at Peking University; Wang Wen, professor at Renmin University of China; and Zhai Kun, professor at Peking University join a panel discussion on the Belt and Road Initiative on Tuesday at the New York in New York. Hong Xiao / China

New partners - Houston

China's Consul General in Houston Li Qiangmin (right) meets with Consul General of Panama Juan Sosa on June 14 to discuss how to work together to promote the newly established diplomatic relationship between Panama and China. Both believe that this new relationship will help expand bilateral cooperation on all fronts. Provided to China Daily

Globe trotters - Washington

Justin Yifu Lin, director of the Center for New Structural Economics at Peking University, speaks at a seminar on globalization at the Heritage Foundation in Washington on Tuesday while Walter Lohman (center), director of Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation, and James Dorn, vice-president for monetary studies at Cato Institute, listen in. Chen Weihua / China Daily

Getting to know you - Detroit

Attendees of the Gateway '17 summit, which is sponsored by e-commerce giant Alibaba, stroll around the booths of small- and medium-sized enterprises in Detroit on Wednesday. The summit was designed to educate American small businesses on Chinese market and consumer demands. Zhang Yuan / China Daily

Opportunity renewed - Oxon Hill, MD

Gilbert Lee, chief financial officer of Fuling Global Inc, a Chinese investment company in Pennsylvania, speaks at a panel

discussion on renewed economic opportunity in the US on Monday at the 2017 SelectUSA Summit held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Maryland. Other panelists included Oracle CEO SafraCatz; ABB president Greg Scheu and Ludwig Willisch, CEO of BMW (US) Holding Corp. Chen Weihua / China Daily

(China Daily USA 06/23/2017 page13)