From June 24 to 28, Ambassador ZHAO Weiping, Vice President of the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs, led a working group of the Chinese Foreign Ministry to New York and Los Angeles.During the visit, Vice President ZHAO took interviews by Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, CNN, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, Fortune Magazine and BuzzFeed Website, focusing on China-US relations, especially China-US trade issues. Wall Street Journal and Associated Press covered some of the interviews in their reports. Vice President ZHAO delivered a speech at a breakfast meeting co-sponsored by the US-China Institute at the University of Southern California and the Asia Society Southern California Center and answered questions raised by the audience of about 30 attendees. The working group also met with Dr. Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State, and had discussions respectively with think tanks and business organizations including Council on Foreign Relations, Asia Society, National Committee on US-China Relations and Los Angeles Regional Export Council.