Green recovery should be thoughtful rather than muscular

Yossi Mekelberg David Cameron, the former British prime minister, has almost disappeared from the public consciousness since his ignominious departure from politics following the Brexit referendum. Like other former world leaders, he has found solace in writing memoirs, joining the very well-paid speakers’ circuit and concentrating his political activity abroad. In his nearly five years […]

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UN role may be last chance to amicably resolve GERD crisis

Dr Abdellatif El-Menawy The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) crisis has begun to take a different direction, especially as a result of this week’s visit to Sudan by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and his meeting with Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, president of the Sudanese transitional Sovereignty Council, and the country’s Prime Minister Abdalla […]

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G7 has to go down difficult road on vaccines

Mohamed A. El-erian Recognizing that “no one is safe until everyone is safe,” the G7 last week announced additional steps to facilitate more “affordable and equitable access to vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics” globally to combat the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). But translating stated intent into effective action will require both bold political leadership at home and […]

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The world hopes to see healthy Sino-US relations

Chen Weihua With the Joe Biden administration busy reversing the previous administration’s policies, there is hope it would also reverse the regressive trend former president Donald Trump’s set for China-US relations.The Trump administration’s trade war, tech war, suspension of bilateral exchange mechanisms and McCarthyist measures against Chinese journalists and media outlets and the Confucius Institutes […]

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Beijing has enriched the human rights cause

Lu Guangjin – China Daily The founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 laid the institutional foundation for the protection of Chinese citizens’ basic rights. The country’s Constitution, adopted in 1954, established the principles of people’s democracy, socialism and the system of people’s congresses, institutionally guaranteed that all State rights belong to the […]

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Boris Johnson and other leaders must heed the lessons of lockdown

Mohamed A El-erian UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s recent warning that the lifting of England’s current third lockdown will be no “great open sesame,” despite a fall in infections and the encouraging progress of the country’s coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination program, should come as no surprise to anyone who has been following the underlying dynamics […]

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Western misunderstandings of ‘one country, two systems’

Lau Siu-kai – China Daily Since Hong Kong’s reunion with the Chinese mainland in 1997, the practice of “one country, two systems” in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has been incessantly and unrelentingly criticized by Western politicians, media, opinion leaders, NGOs, human rights organizations and international bodies dominated by the West.Recently, some Westerners have […]

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Experts anticipate positive changes on China-US academic ties as Biden takes office

Song Jingyi The geopolitical, trade and technology frictions between the United States and China will continue to have an impact on higher education cooperation between academics and universities in the two countries under US President-elect Joe Biden, education experts say, although they see a likely change of tone under Biden which could ease some current […]

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