Ding Gang There are reasons why some countries, especially some large developing countries, haven’t joined the US and the EU in sanctioning Russia. For example, India, Indonesia, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates and Brazil, and of course China. The West has portrayed their unprecedented sanctions against Russia as a democratic struggle against totalitarianism and […]
Read MoreWang Xu Pakistan is the only all-weather strategic cooperative partner of China. The political instability in Pakistan is always a cause for concern. However, with the time-honored history and solid foundation of friendship, and having just celebrated the 70th anniversary of the establishment of formal diplomatic ties, the two countries are confident enough to maintain […]
Read MoreKerry Boyd Anderson Elon Musk’s plan to purchase Twitter and take the company private has prompted speculation about the social media platform’s future. Musk has offered $44 billion for Twitter, raising questions about the company’s value and sparking concerns that he will roll back content moderation policies. A fundamental question underlies the controversy that often […]
Read MoreZaid M. Belbagi Amid a cost of living crisis, recurring scandals and a mixed response to the pandemic, Britain’s ruling Conservative Party was always ripe for defeat in last week’s local elections. After 12 years in Downing Street, polling gave the public an important opportunity to register their disappointment with the current government. London’s affluent […]
Read MoreBy Wang Yiwei and Liao Huan The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict appears to be a confrontation between Russia and Ukraine, but it mirrors the Western civilization’ crisis of expansion. This crisis stems from the inherent duality of Western civilization – the West can only accept the existence of its homogeneity, and the non-homogeneous is either assimilated […]
Read MoreBy Bradley Blankenship May 4 marks the Youth Day in China. Year 2022 also marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Youth League of China. This generation of Chinese youth not only have more opportunities than their predecessors, but have interacted more with their peers elsewhere across the world. For this reason, […]
Read MoreRANVIR S. NAYAR In 2021, the world’s energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose to their highest ever level of 36.3 billion tons, according to the International Energy Agency, citing the strong recovery in the global economy and the wider use of coal for power generation. Coal accounted for more than 40 percent of the overall growth […]
Read MoreAlistair Burt UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss made her first Mansion House speech last week, the diplomatic set piece of the year in London. She may not make many more. Since William Hague understudied the role in opposition for five years and then occupied Britain’s premier diplomatic seat for a further four years, the average […]
Read MoreHu Xijin This wave of COVID-19 outbreak in Beijing may have been spreading covertly for a week, and many fear the virus will spread further. It’s also unknown when Shanghai will be able to contain the outbreak, and if there are large infections in Beijing, the impact will be unimaginable. The ability to effectively control […]
Read MoreWang Wen Because of my occupation, I often come into contact with many foreigners. Recently, I participated in many webinars with think tanks from the US and Europe, and also communicated with diplomats from a number of Western embassies in China. They put forward some common views on sensitive issues such as the Russia-Ukraine conflict […]
Read MoreDimah Talal Al-Sharif Saudi Arabia’s newly implemented electronic invoicing system aims to transform the issuing of paper invoices and notices into an electronic process. The electronic invoicing system allows the exchange of invoices, debit and credit notices, and all their related processes to take place in an electronic format between the seller and the buyer. […]
Read MoreTala Jarjour The coronavirus pandemic has not yet left the headlines, but it is no longer all doom and gloom. Infection numbers are falling, steadily in some countries, and restrictions on life and work have been reduced or lifted altogether in many parts of the world. The travel sector is gearing up for a busy […]
Read MoreWang Wen If a few years ago, someone said that China’s rise had ended and China was declining, no one would have believed it. But this argument has resurfaced in the last half of the year. American scholars Michael Berkley and Hal Brands published long articles on this topic in Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy […]
Read MoreMu Lu “Russia should lose its permanent seat on the UN Security Council,” Dave Sharma, a member of Australia’s House of Representatives who chairs the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, recently said in an article in Nikkei Asia, saying “Moscow has voided its moral claim to such a privilege.” Previously, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s […]
Read MoreFuad Al-Zayer The UN’s third Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was published earlier this month with a stark warning that climate change is causing more frequent severe storms, floods, droughts, wildfires, and other extreme weather events. It said that current plans by governments around the world to address climate change are not enough to limit […]
Read MoreDr Dania Koleilat Khatib Everyone in Europe is tense watching the elections in France. Though Emmanuel Macron is taking the lead, a Marine Le Pen win is more likely than in the last elections. A Le Pen victory would be catastrophic for the EU and even endanger its existence. Le Pen inherited her father’s National […]
Read MoreHu Xijin According to reports from Taiwan’s United Daily News, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will lead a delegation to visit Taiwan on April 10, the 43rd anniversary of the signing of the so-called “Taiwan Relations Act.” If the reports are true, this will be an extremely serious event, the most serious provocation by Washington […]
Read MoreTang Jingtai In recent years, Western public opinion has often been subject to mistranslations, omissions, additions and twisted interpretations of some key issues and events related to China. There are two prominent examples of this phenomenon. First, objective constraints, especially mistranslations in the absence of appropriate political and economic contexts and professional backgrounds, make it […]
Read MoreYossi Mekelberg The era of low prices, especially where food and energy are concerned, is evidently well and truly over. Inflation is engulfing the global economy and much of it can be attributed to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, various domestic factors and, more recently, the war in Ukraine. However, while the economic impact […]
Read MoreDr Azeem Ibrahim The US State Department’s determination that the persecution of the Rohingya minority by Myanmar meets the criteria of a genocide is regarded by scholars as one of the most obvious and clearest genocide determinations they have seen. But the persecution of the Rohingya is not yet a historical event. A small proportion […]
Read MoreDing Gang On March 26, Biden gave a lengthy speech on the last day of his visit to Poland. At the end of the speech, he suddenly said that Putin “can no longer stay in power.” The world was stunned. Is the White House going to officially declare war on Russia? Two days later, Biden […]
Read MoreAndrew Korybko Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov just paid his first visit to China since the onset of his country’s ongoing special military operation in Ukraine. That conflict triggered unprecedented US-led Western sanctions that raised questions about Russia’s long-term macroeconomic stability. Nevertheless, China refused to participate in these illegal economic restrictions imposed outside the UN […]
Read MoreChristopher Phillips The West’s Middle Eastern allies have been notably lukewarm in their condemnation of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Instead, they have hedged their bets. Most approved, and some even co-sponsored, the toothless UN General Assembly resolution of March 2 calling for immediate withdrawal but, at the same time, none have joined the Western-led […]
Read MoreAjmal Shams The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Council of Foreign Ministers held its 48th session in Islamabad last week. It was another significant opportunity for the member states to come together within the framework of an important international platform. For the approximately 2 billion adherents of Islam worldwide, who make up about 25 percent of […]
Read MoreDing Gang The Russia-Ukraine conflict has demonstrated once again that the model of European integration, of which NATO is an important part, cannot be used to develop political and economic security order in Asia. After the Cold War, a dominant international understanding emerged that the European model should be appropriate for other regions. This view […]
Read MoreDing Gang Last Monday, Hong Kong’s benchmark Hang Seng Index fell 5 percent to its lowest closing level since March 2016, while the Hang Seng Technology Index sank 11 percent, the biggest one-day drop since the index went live in July 2020. In the US, the Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index fell for a third […]
Read MoreDalia Al-Aqidi Even though it has been more than a month since Russia’s deadly invasion of Ukraine began, Americans are still closely following the news to gather all the details. They are not shy in expressing their admiration for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his pride in his people’s high-spirited defense of their country in […]
Read MoreLaura Chinchilla & Maria Fernanda Espinosa The world is well aware that the climate crisis is one of the main stumbling blocks to sustainable development. And yet, despite the dramatic evidence of the lethal consequences of climate change, and despite possessing the knowledge, technologies, and resources to fix it, we continue on the same high-carbon […]
Read MoreLan Jianxue – Global Times Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday “expressed his understanding of India’s position on the crisis in Ukraine,” some Indian media outlets cited India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla as saying. This line came after Morrison and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi concluded a virtual summit on the same day. […]
Read MoreJerry Grey – Global Times CNN optimistically reported: “Even some on Biden’s own national security team were surprised at how quickly some US allies in Asia… were willing to slap sanctions on Russia following its invasion.” Truthfully, Biden’s national security team would not have been at all surprised at the speed with which Japan, South […]
Read MoreMohamed Chebaro Whichever way you look at the global economy, plastic remains a key component in most industries and is a key polluter of our ecosystem. Education, enforcement and even making the use of plastic more expensive to the consumer in some parts of the world have failed to curb its use. We must reuse […]
Read MoreNidhal Guessoum Last November, unrelated to the Ukraine situation, Russia blew up one of its old communications satellites. The month before, China tested a new hypersonic anti-satellite missile. In March 2019, India destroyed a “low Earth orbit” satellite from the ground, becoming the fourth country to do so. Indeed, the US, Russia and China have […]
Read MoreCheng Xizhong – China Economic Net Pakistani Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Shaukat Tarin, while addressing an event organized by Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Pakistan on Thursday, said that the Pakistani government was focusing on inclusive and sustainable development for economic prosperity of the country. The COVID-19 crisis has quickly turned into […]
Read MoreCheng Xizhong – China Economic Net This week, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced in Islamabad a major livelihood project called “Ehsaas Riyayat Ration Scheme” to help solve the difficulties faced by the ordinary people in life. “Ehsaas Riyayat Ration Scheme” is a government project for a discount on basic food items for needy […]
Read MorePrince Badr Bin Abdullah Bin Farhan Al-Saud In one of the villages of the Tabuk region in northwestern Saudi Arabia, 14-year-old Omar seemed confident about an on-screen character he would portray in an international movie being filmed nearby. The teenager, who had never acted or attended the shooting of a film or TV series, finally […]
Read MoreAndrew Hammond Speaking during an official visit to Washington, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss warned that the consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine are as serious for the world as those of 9/11, and said the UK and other Western nations are paying the price for years of failure to take action against Moscow. […]
Read MoreHu Xijin Seven days have passed since the Russia-Ukraine military conflict broke out. It’s uncertain how the situation will evolve. Many people are asking: What impact will this crisis have on the world and how will it influence China? The conflict itself will bring a huge impact, but it is the outcome that will really […]
Read MoreTom Fowdy – China Daily Over the past weekend, China held its annual two sessions meetings and declared a GDP growth target for 2022 of around 5.5 percent. The term “two sessions” refers to the annual meetings of the nation’s top legislature, the National People’s Congress, and the top political advisory body, the Chinese People’s […]
Read MoreMaha Akeel The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is gender bias, with the focus on raising awareness of the effects of bias on women’s lives and careers. Women and girls face different forms of gender bias from the day they are born. At home, boys might receive favorable treatment and better nourishment and […]
Read MoreWilliam A. Haseltine It is now well known that SARS-CoV-2, the strain of coronavirus that causes COVID-19, can mutate to evade vaccine protection against infection. The omicron variants — BA.1, B1.1 and BA.2 — can infect those who were previously infected by other variants, even when vaccinated. And though a third booster shot offers some […]
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