It was a strange setting for a meeting that would have made headlines in the world's largest country.
In an unfinished office inside Twin Rinks, the relatively new skating facility in East Meadow, there sat the two men who are currently the most visible proponents of hockey in China.
Charles Wang is well known around here, of course. He's owned the Islanders for 15 years now.
He's known in China, too, but more for his efforts to promote the game he grew to love after leaving Shanghai at age eight with his family to begin anew in Queens.