Ajmal 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 […]
Read MoreDing Gang On February 21, 1972, US President Richard Nixon came to Beijing to begin a “world-changing” visit. He became the first sitting US president to visit China. On February 28, China and the US issued the Shanghai Joint Communiqué, which laid the foundation for the subsequent development of US-China relations. Twenty years ago, in […]
Read MoreCheng Xizhong Recently, especially after Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan visited China to attend the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games and witnessed China’s high-tech demonstration, Pakistani leaders have frequently emphasized the new concepts of digital economy, innovation economy and green economy, etc. and are determined to quickly put Pakistan on the […]
Read MoreKerry Boyd Anderson Multiple droughts around the world today threaten significant political, social and economic impacts. Drought in Iran has forced internal migration and sparked protests. Parts of Brazil are experiencing the worst drought in decades, affecting its agricultural production and creating risks for the population, including in large cities. A historic drought in California […]
Read MoreDaniel J Arbess US President Joe Biden’s recently announced goal of reducing America’s cancer death rate by half in the next 25 years, with its encouraging emphasis on early detection and prevention, sounds bold. But we can do even more to tackle the disease — and faster. That is because scientific advances over the past […]
Read MoreDing Gang A year after Biden took office, the US released its much-anticipated US Indo-Pacific Strategy on February 11. It is a report drenched in poison. The US Indo-Pacific Strategy cited Biden’s speech on Sept 24, 2021 at the first leaders’ summit of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QSD) between the United States, Japan, India and […]
Read MoreJames Smith On February 15, China’s Embassy in Canada condemned some Canadian media outlets for proliferating reports claiming that children in the Xizang Autonomous Region “are forced into boarding schools.” Rejecting the claims as false, the embassy iterated that children in Xizang are offered a high quality of education and protection, and that boarding school […]
Read MoreMichael Rothman For the better part of two years, oil market volatility had at its center concerns linked to the coronavirus pandemic and, more specifically, negative impacts on global oil demand growth from isolating and containment measures. And 2020 saw the largest ever retrenchment in oil usage that eclipsed the previously worse contraction, which occurred […]
Read MoreDr Abdel Aziz Aluwaisheg Visiting Brussels for the second time in a month, one could not fail to notice how the Ukraine crisis is casting a longer shadow over the city and the EU than just a month ago. The EU had been gearing up for competition with China, but the Ukraine crisis has added […]
Read MoreAndrey Kortunov On February 4, on the sidelines of the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a Joint Statement on the International Relations Entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable Development. It is a rather lengthy document, outlining common approaches of […]
Read MoreDing Gang The wonderful appearance of LEDs during the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics reminded me of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. That opening ceremony used a ground-level LED screen, 3,234 square meters in area, but many parts, especially key components, were imported from abroad. 14 years later, the world’s largest LED […]
Read MoreJosep Borrell After being postponed several times because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this week’s EU-African Union Summit in Brussels will bring together European and African heads of state and government for the first time since 2017. The EU’s objective is to become Africa’s partner of choice, a goal set by European Commission President Ursula von […]
Read MoreChris Doyle Any snapshot of the global response to COVID-19 would be characterized by vastly differing approaches and regrettably a lack of united purpose. Too often governments adopted their own approach governed by immediate self-interest. Yet more than two years into the pandemic, after endless restrictions, the like of which most of us have never […]
Read MoreGlobal Times It comes as no surprise that when most mainstream US media reported the victory of Eileen Gu Ailing, they didn’t forget to stress that Gu was “US-born.” NBC Bay Area, an NBC-owned-and-operated television station, reminded its Twitter audience that Gu is from San Francisco. Gu is the 18-year-old skier representing China at the […]
Read MoreMartin Jacques 2022 is not 2008. In 2008, the West was warming to China. It had growing expectations of their relationship. Since then, the warmth has been replaced by a cold chill. China did not westernize in the manner that the US expected and required. Worse, China got stronger as the US grew weaker. By […]
Read MoreKerry Boyd Anderson Americans’ deeply polarized politics are increasingly touching every facet of daily life, leaving many people feeling exhausted and judged. Americans who identify with a strong right-wing or left-wing group at least can retreat into their political tribe, where they know they will find approval for their beliefs and actions. However, moderates feel […]
Read MoreSara Al-Mulla In one of his keynote speeches, former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described the significance of cultural heritage. “Art, literature, music, poetry, architecture — these are the hallmarks of our human existence. They form a common thread that unites all civilizations and cultures, a celebration of our emotional lives and the beauty of our […]
Read MoreDing Gang On January 6, Apple filed a document with the US Securities and Exchange Commission showing that Tim Cook’s total compensation as CEO in 2021 reached $98.7 million. It came after Apple’s market capitalization surpassed $3 trillion during mid-day US stock trading on January 3, making it the world’s highest market capitalization. This amount […]
Read MoreAndrew Korybko The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games will begin on February 4 and are taking place in a completely different international environment than the Beijing Summer Olympics that were held in 2008. Drawing attention to China’s peaceful and mutually beneficial rise to global leadership over the past 14 years can help observers better appreciate […]
Read MoreDr Mohamed Ramady Public awareness of and demand for a better health service are contributing factors to improved healthcare, especially in the era of social media criticisms of the shortcomings of public health. For health practitioners, the adoption of technology can be a blessing in disguise. In times when the delivery of healthcare is under […]
Read MoreMichael Rothman Climate change has been pushed to the forefront in most political arenas, and there is broad agreement that an evolution of energy use is in the long-term interest of our planet’s inhabitants. Who can argue with that? The issue, though like most all human challenges, is less about the desired end-result and more […]
Read MoreYasar Yakis The US State Department two weeks ago sent a document to the Department of International Economic Affairs at the Greek Foreign Ministry. It was about the Eastern Mediterranean (EastMed) gas pipeline project. Greek media was alarmed by its content. The document said that while Washington remained “committed to physically interconnecting the EastMed energy […]
Read MoreDr Theodore karasik Issues related to the aftermath of COVID-19 are tricky because of the many variables determining the speed of the planet’s recovery from the pandemic. The unknowns surrounding the full impact of the global public health emergency, such as on so-called lost generations and the brain drain, are damaging as we try to […]
Read MoreWang Shuo This past weekend, many people in the US and Europe were nervous about the possibility of the “first war of 2022” breaking out on the Russia-Ukraine border. To make things worse, the US Department of State issued a travel warning to Americans, and, the US and some European countries started to supply weaponry […]
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