US beef had been banned from China since 2003 due to a mad cow disease scare

"My great, great grandfather was Zeng Guofan," Watt saidThe 79-year-old never expected when he was browsing the internet that day that he would uncover a piece of family history dating back some 140 years

"It was a picture I had never seen before and my instinct told me that the subjects could be my great grandparents," he told China DailyAccording to Watt, the unique wedding photograph documents the moment of the start of the prominent Nie family in China"The groom, Nie Jigui, served as Shanghai's Governor from 1890 to 1893, died in 1911 and was buried in Hunan, while the bride, Zeng Jifen, died in 1942 and was buried in Shanghai

Not to mention, in an exhibition some 3,500 miles away from where he livedPortrait 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

"Today, Beijing is a vastly different place and the early photographs presented a perspective on the city which had never been previously available

The country, which gained independence from the United Kingdom in April 1961, remains one of the least developed in the worldThis represents a dramatic shift since that question was last asked in 2015

Such an independent policy is dealing a heavy blow to those who still view the relationship between the three countries as zero-sumSome even believe that he would not able to serve the full six-year term

And overall, the perception gap between the US and China in the Philippines is narrowingIt clearly suggests that one's gain is another's loss