There is tension between Japan and China over some islands in the sea between Japan and Taiwan.
There are riots going on over the debate. We are not supposed to discuss sensitive issues so that is all I will say.

We had saturday sessions of district conference today. We are part of the Centeral China International District of the Church. Branches from Quingdao in the east to Chengdu in the southwest participated. We all called into a conference number from our regular meeting place of the branches.
The official location of the meeting was in Chengdu. We had a little technical difficulity in the Priesthood session this afternoon. The Church has supplied a Polycom teleconference device to the branches so we can meet together and participate. We had a little trouble getting it to work here on campus in the conference room the branch rents from the university to hold meetings in. After it was working we had a good meeting. I got to give the closing prayer. The evening adult meeting had the
District presidency in Chengdu and their wives were in the home branches some where around the country. Rosemary gave the closing prayer in the adult meeting. Speakers were from around the country.
 Between meetings, all the teachers, not just the BYU teachers, had a gettogether and shared food from our home countries. We have teachers from Spain, Japan, Iran, Turkey, Portugual, USA, Australia, Egypt, India and maybe some others. So we had a sampling of different foods. Rosemary made deviled eggs.