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A panda relaxes on a hot afternoon at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding on Wednesday, May 23, 2018, in Chengdu, China. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
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Alaska Gov. Bill Walker walks into a banquet after a U.S.-China Governors forum on Tuesday, May 23, 2018 in Chengdu, China. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
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U.S. Consul General to Chengdu Jim Mullinax talks to a trade delegation from Alaska about Chinese culture on Monday, March 21, 2018, in Chengdu, China. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
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Copper River Seafoods Chief Strategy Officer Rich Monroe chats with a potential buyer during a “speed dating” event between companies with Alaska products to sell and potential Chinese customers on Tuesday, May 22, 2018, in Chengdu, China. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
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A group of women till the soil at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding on Wednesday, May 23, 2018, in Chengdu, China. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
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Ron Risher, International Slaes Manager for Icicle Seafoods, on a bus to tour a massive e-commerce facility on Thursday May 24, 2018, in Beijing, China. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
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A motor scooter driver chats on his cellphone while coming up on a busy interseaction on Tuesday, May 24, 2018, in Beijing, China. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
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Jesse Carlstrom of the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation and KTUU journalist Blake Essig sample a turtle during dinner on Monday, May 21, 2018, in Chengdu, China. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
Alaska’s Energy Desk’s Rashah McChesney is in China covering Governor Walker’s Opportunity Alaska: China Trade & Investment Mission 2018.
Rashah McChesney is a photojournalist turned radio journalist who has been telling stories in Alaska since 2012. Before joining Alaska's Energy Desk, she worked at Kenai's Peninsula Clarion and the Juneau bureau of the Associated Press. She is a graduate of Iowa State University's Greenlee Journalism School and has worked in public television, newspapers and now radio, all in the quest to become the Swiss Army knife of storytellers.