Wang Wen The Chinese government has pledged that China will hit peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and become carbon neutral before 2060. Very soon after this news, “emission peak” and “carbon neutrality” have become buzzwords in China’s financial, energy and industrial circles. Relevant seminars and forums are being held almost every day in big […]
Read MoreMartin Jacques Nowhere is the difference between China and the West more evident than in their systems of governance. Since 1945 the typical form of Western governance has been universal suffrage and a multi-party system. This has been the West’s main calling card for over 70 years. It believes that every country – most certainly […]
Read MoreKerry Boyd Anderson The Middle East and many parts of Africa are arid regions with long experience of drought. However, anthropogenic climate change threatens to significantly exacerbate these challenges. In 2017, the World Bank noted that, “while population and economic growth will increase water demands, climate change will be the primary driver for the most […]
Read MoreCornelia Meyer The ransomware cyberattacks on the Colonial Pipeline, which carries refined products from the Gulf of Mexico up to New York Harbor, was a shock in more ways than one. The entire Colonial Pipeline system had to be taken offline as a precautionary measure late Friday. Colonial is the largest products’ pipeline in the […]
Read MoreHu Xijin I don’t think the Chinese public hold a collective schadenfreude attitude toward the devastating epidemic in India. It is normal that some are vocal about India’s China stance. It is also normal that there are opinions that may not rest comfortably with some Indians. Similarly, when China encounters a disaster, there are confrontational, […]
Read MoreHu Xijin It is the World Press Freedom Day again. Regrettably, press freedom is entirely defined under the Western political system framework, neglecting the social reality of many developing countries. This has led to significant ideological divergence between developing countries and the West, spearheaded by the US. And, the difference is exacerbated by the West’s […]
Read MoreDr Abdel Aziz Aluwaisheg It was a good move by the US to send a high-level delegation to Riyadh just a few days after Saudi Arabia’s Crown PrinceMohammed bin Salman commented on his country’s relationship with the Biden administration. The US envoys met with officials on Monday and sought to clarify the administration’s “recalibration” of […]
Read MoreCornelia Meyer Cryptocurrencies and other web-based value structures such as NFTs (non-fungible tokens) have come of age during the pandemic, when so much of our lives moved online.Things moved fast and furious this year again. In April, Bitcoin hit an all-time high close to $65,000, just to lose 15 percent of its value the following […]
Read MoreWang Wen US President Joe Biden held a two-day virtual climate summit attended by 40 other world leaders with the aim to address the global climate crisis. China was one of the participants. Indeed, China and the US are jointly shouldering responsibilities as major powers for climate change, laying the foundation for cooperation in the […]
Read MoreHu Xijin The EU External Action Service (EEAS) on Wednesday published a report, accusing Chinese media of sowing disinformation to “undermine trust in Western vaccines.” The links of much of the so-called disinformation are reports of the Global Times. My colleagues and I despise such information hegemony of the EU. Most negative information quoted by […]
Read MoreKhalaf Ahmad Al-Habtoor Businesses and enterprises the world over have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Since its outbreak, the UAE has taken a series of measures to help alleviate the fallout on the economy. For businesses in the country, the hefty stimulus packages announced in 2020 amounted to hundreds of billions of dirhams, […]
Read MoreKang Bing Whenever this familiar song of John Denver plays, I am reminded of a zigzagging dirt road extending into the horizon, a dirt road lined with trees and bushes on both sides, a dirt road that leads me to my home, sweet home in a village. Such country roads were not exclusive to West […]
Read MoreDing Gang After the US identified China as a strategic competitor, US President Joe Biden announced his plan to invest more in chips, infrastructure and many other areas to maintain US’ advantages over China. Some American scholars view the move as the 21st century’s “Great Game.” They have even called on the US government to […]
Read MoreWang Wen China and the US issued a joint statement on climate change on Sunday following US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry’s visit to Shanghai and meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua. This signals some relaxation of the tensions between China and the US. It is also encouraging and represents that the […]
Read MoreXie Laihui Addressing the Boao Forum for Asia through video link, President Xi Jinping said the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a public road open to all, not a private path owned by one single party. By 2030, Belt and Road projects could help lift 7.6 million people from extreme poverty and 32 million […]
Read MoreMaleeha Lodhi There was little surprise in President Joe Biden’s announcement last week that the US will unconditionally withdraw all its military forces from Afghanistan by September and end its “forever war.” The US president had long been of the view that retaining troops in Afghanistan was not only untenable but had lost any rationale […]
Read MoreLiu Yuanling Sino-US relations are at a historic low. Although the Joe Biden administration’s China policy is different from the confrontationist policy of the previous administration, there are no signs of improvement in bilateral ties.Under such circumstances, holding discussions on climate change actions would be a good way to resume Sino-US cooperation. Indeed, Sino-US cooperation […]
Read MoreDu Ying China will prioritize agricultural development and rural areas to modernize agriculture by 2035.However, two major challenges exist. First, the country’s huge population, limited agricultural land and water scarcity make China more suitable for labor and technology-intensive farm produce, instead of land-intensive products. Second, most farmers in China are smallholders. The country’s 220 million […]
Read MoreAndrew Hammond Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency is the historic benchmark for judging the first 100 days of any new White House incumbent. While Joe Biden will not surpass the achievements of the legendary proponent of the New Deal, his presidency has seen one of the most productive first three months of the modern era — and […]
Read MoreWang Wen US President Joe Biden has invited 40 heads of state to the Leaders Summit on Climate on April 22 and 23. This has heated up the global competition over the low-carbon economy. This new competition could even be called “a new global green and low-carbon economy war.” As climate change becomes a more […]
Read MoreChen Weihua Many US politicians have been busy politicizing the novel coronavirus during the past year, resulting in the worst pandemic response from the world’s richest country. They have shifted their focus to infrastructure now. For example, US President Joe Biden said that he told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a phone call on […]
Read MoreMartin Jacques The Communist Party of China (CPC) is like no other party in the world. It requires us to rethink the very idea of what a political party is. It is a phenomenon intrinsic to China. It is ineluctably Chinese. The CPC’s extraordinary success is because it found a way during its 100-year history […]
Read MoreOsama Al-Sharif Jordanians have been shocked by this week’s revelations concerning Prince Hamzah bin Hussein and an alleged conspiracy to destabilize the kingdom. The government, in a press conference on Sunday, said an investigation is ongoing and that it will be open and transparent. This is an important message to Jordanians and to the world. […]
Read MoreYu Lei The Australian media outlet News.com.au reported on Saturday that, “There are concerns from New Zealand Five Eyes’ allies that it may be the weak link in dealing with China as the Ardern Government, again, failed to call out Beijing.” This is not the sole article delivering grievances regarding New Zealand’s China policy. There […]
Read MoreWang Wen As Western attacks on China over cotton production in the country’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region garnered world’s attention, I was doing research in about 10 counties and townships located at the border between Central China’s Hunan Province and East China’s Jiangxi Province. It’s where Mao Zedong led the Autumn Harvest Uprising and established […]
Read MoreHu Xijin Chinese Consulate-General in Rio de Janeiro Li Yang criticized Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Twitter Sunday. He tweeted, with a photo of Trudeau, that, “Boy, your greatest achievement is to have ruined the friendly relations between China and Canada, and have turned Canada into a running dog of the US. Spendthrift!” His […]
Read MoreZaid M. Belbagi The grounding of the cargo ship Ever Given in the Suez Canal last week serves as a good opportunity to focus our minds on the future of the waterway and the wider Red Sea region. The canal is a vital artery for the global economy, and so the $15 million a day […]
Read MoreChen Weihua While Americans debate whether the March 16 shooting in the three spas in Atlanta, Georgia, that killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent, constitutes a hate crime, the protests against discrimination of Asian Americans in many US cities showed that people are fed up with a society where such crimes went […]
Read MoreMartin Jacques We learnt two things from the China-US high-level dialogue held in Alaska last week. The first was from the session at the beginning when the media were present. This would normally be conducted in a polite and somewhat anodyne fashion dressed up in diplomatic nicety. It could not have been more different. Secretary […]
Read MoreHu Xijin I was very moved when I listened to a lecture on the history of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The 100 years of the CPC have been a century when Chinese people took their destiny back into their own hands. They have fought off external bullying, eradicated poverty, and gained self-esteem. In […]
Read MoreAlexis Konstantopoulos March 25, 2021, marks the bicentennial of the beginning of the Greek struggle for independence after roughly four centuries of Ottoman occupation. For Greeks, in Greece and throughout the world, it is a day to celebrate our national identity, millennial culture, arts and traditions, and values and beliefs. It is a day of […]
Read MoreShen Minghui China has become the first country to ratify the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement, the Ministry of Commerce said on Monday. With Thailand, too, ratifying the trade deal and the 13 other RCEP member states stressing they will ratify it before the end of this year to ensure it goes into effect on […]
Read MoreWang Wen Picture this. Someone tells you that if you invest 1 yuan ($0.15), you will harvest 100 trillion yuan after 100 years. This means that the yearly return is 38 percent, which is twice that of US investor and business tycoon Warren Buffet over the past 50 years. Given this scenario, would you invest? […]
Read MoreMark C Donfried A year has now passed since the mass outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a global level. Now that we are in the second year of the pandemic, it is obvious that the worldwide vaccination effort is essential to decreasing the magnitude of COVID-19’s impact on all aspects of our lives, […]
Read MoreYossi 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 […]
Read MoreWang Wen During his press conference on the sidelines of the ongoing two sessions, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said, it is not surprising that there is competition between China and the US as their interests are intertwined, but the two sides should have healthy competition on the basis of fairness and […]
Read MoreMartin Jacques China faces a formidable challenge in restoring political stability and direction in Hong Kong. The work has started, but there is a long way to go. From the handover in 1997 until 2014, Hong Kong was marked by relative calm and stability. This was brought to an abrupt end with the so-called umbrella […]
Read MoreKerry Boyd Anderson On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis an official pandemic. One year later, the pandemic has changed our world in innumerable ways. Some of those changes are reversible; others are not. Most importantly, COVID-19 has killed more than 2.5 million people. In the US […]
Read MoreDr 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 […]
Read MoreWang Yi On May 21, 1951, the People’s Republic of China and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan entered into formal diplomatic relations. In the seven decades ever since, the two countries have stood together, rain or shine, and built an exceptional, ironclad friendship. This friendship has become a strategic asset, most dearly cherished by both […]
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