"Relationships are especially important in China, and we are fortunate that Governor Branstad welcomed a then local agricultural official from China over 30 years ago into Iowa named Xi Jinping, who is now the nation's president," said Reynolds

The Philippines under Duterte has tried to develop an independent foreign policy rather than being a US puppet most of the time

"At the peak, I had 21 relatives living here, and there are still 12 of them now," Cho said

Portrait of a womanWhen New York-based Raymond Watt came across an article on the BBC news website about a Chinese photography exhibition in the UK last November, he was shocked, to say the least

The Republic of Korea's weather agency also assessed the quake as natural, The Associated Press reported on Sunday