- 2017: Oregon governor, Kate Brown, signs legislation supporting further economic ties with China.Oregon China Council. 2018: China received $4.7 billion in Oregon exports, a 20 percent jump from the previous year. How Oregon's Economy Benefits from International Trade & Investment.2017: American and Chinese Troops Work Together in Oregon.2020: Oregon prepares for 'mass fatality incident' as fires continue to ravage West Coast.2020 OR: Michael Jarrod Bakkela, 41, charged with arson in connection with Almeda Fire in southern Oregon.2020: Oregon governor Kate Brown - Wildfires are result of climate change and forest mismanagement.
- Chinese military calls US biggest threat to world peace.Defense Ministry spokesman Col. Wu Qian, “Many years of evidence shows that it is the U.S. that is the fomenter of regional unrest, the violator of the international order and the destroyer of world peace.”
- 2017: Governor of Washington State, Jay Inslee, hopes for enhanced China ties.Communism made a larger impact on Washington than almost any other state. “There are forty-seven states in the Union, and the Soviet of Washington,” Postmaster General James Farley joked in 1936. First COVID-19 case was in the state of Washington. (He returned from visiting family in Wuhan, China.)2020: Washington Gov. Inslee says state looks ‘apocalyptic’ from fires.2020: Gov. Jay Inslee, “We have a blowtorch over our states in the West, which is climate change,” he said. (Inslee stays on script)
- The Vatican faces criticism for pursuing closer ties with China.


