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The imbalance in the U.S.-China relationship extends beyond trade to the world of higher education.

The imbalance in the U.S.-China relationship extends beyond trade to the world of higher education. These days, only about 700 American students are studying at Chinese universities, down from a

The city of Benicia announced Wednesday afternoon that there will be two Citizen Oversight Committees to ensure that the funds generated from proposed tax measures on the upcoming ballot will be used legally and as promised to the taxpayers of Benicia, should they be approved by voters during the March 5 Statewide Presidential Primary Election.

Some residents support the proposal, saying it would be visually appealing. But the neighborhood association raised concerns.

A sweetish suite of machine translations of a pseudo-Swedish paragraph concocted on a whim by Douglas Hofstadter. The resulting gobbledygook reveals the true zombie-like nature of these highly vaunted and often virtuosic programs.

This week, Kaiser Kuo and David Moser are delighted to host Jeremiah Jenne, Director at the Hutong, Beijing’s premier cultural exchange center, for a conversation that picks apart China’s obsession with “Chinese characteristics” and asks whether this is empty rhetoric, or something that actually matters.

'Were it not for the palm trees and the 80-degree weather, you could be in Maine.'

Some in Seattle media celebrated the responses "owning" the conservatives at Fox News, even looking for some of the people featured in the video.

Scoop Wellington provides news and views from Wellington, New Zealand

Mobility Guardian, a massive exercise for airlift and aerial refueling, involved 3,000 troops and 70 mobility aircraft from the U.S. and six allies.