Zhang Yansheng From December 18 to 22, 1978, the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was held in Beijing, which proposed the task of reform and opening-up, “a crucial move in making China what it is today.” This policy has created the miracle of China’s rapid […]
Read MoreDong Yifan The 24th China-EU Summit, marking the first in-person meeting between Chinese and European leaders in four years, was held on Thursday in Beijing. The significance of this face-to-face interaction cannot be overstated, considering its influential role in guiding China-EU relations. However, the European Union, in its approach to the development of China-EU relations, […]
Read MoreWang Jisi When the tragic news of Dr. Henry Kissinger’s death came, I was very sad, but not shocked. More than 20 hours before, I had heard that his condition was getting critical. On October 11, I was invited to visit Dr. Kissinger in his office in New York. He was still in good spirits, […]
Read MoreZheng Yongnian Asia today faces unprecedented security challenges, and the situation in Asia needs to be understood from the perspective of overall international relations. China should think out of the box and consider what it can do for the world. I would like to discuss China’s unique role in world order from the perspective of […]
Read MoreGlobal Times On November 30, a federal district judge in Montana issued a preliminary injunction calling off the state’s ban on TikTok. Montana is the first state in the nation to initiate a ban on TikTok, announced by the state government on May 18 this year to block TikTok completely, with heavy fines for violators. […]
Read MoreChen Weihua Fu Cong, China’s ambassador to the European Union, hit the nail on Tuesday when he told a forum in Brussels that for most Chinese including himself, understanding EU’s “holy trinity” of defining China as a cooperation partner, economic competitor and systemic rival is a “mind-bogging exercise”. It has baffled me, too, since the […]
Read MoreChina Daily Politicization of economic and trade issues has proved detrimental to all parties, as has the adoption of protectionist approaches. Such practices only make things harder in what is already a testing time and do a disservice to the settlement of differences. Dialogue and a willingness to overcome challenges together represent the way for […]
Read MoreLau Siu-Kai President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden met in San Francisco, US, on Wednesday to discuss significant issues of concern to both countries. The meeting between the two heads of state attracted worldwide attention because, in the current turbulent international political and economic situation, the future direction of US-China relations is vital […]
Read MoreGlobal Times Recently, the BBC reported that the “Indian capital lags behind Beijing in the battle to breathe.” The article highlights that a range of “command-and-control measures” helped Beijing clean up its air, while Delhi’s battle against air pollution stumbles due to inadequate planning, wrongly designed policies, and partisan politics. On Monday, following the Diwali […]
Read MoreDing Gang Traveling along the Hexi Corridor that connects Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region with other regions in China, I was deeply impressed by three aspects. Firstly, the bustling transportation along the corridor caught my attention. Secondly, I noticed that each town has gained its unique specialty. For instance, Zhangye city in Gansu Province […]
Read MoreHu Xijin Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s visit to China has attracted the attention of Asia and the entire West. It is a clear signal that China and Australia have chosen to recalibrate their years-long strained bilateral relations. Australia is the first US ally to make a clear change in its attitude toward China after […]
Read MoreZhai Shilei Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will visit China from Nov 4 to 7, which will provide the two sides with a good opportunity to put bilateral relations back on track. China and Australia established diplomatic relations in 1972 and the next year, then Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam paid an official visit to […]
Read MoreAdnan Hameed Xi Jinping’s monumental work, “The Governance of China,” stands as a testament to a visionary journey that has profoundly reshaped the destiny of the world’s most populous nation. In my two trips to China, first in 2018 and later in 2023, I had the privilege of observing the tangible transformations unfolding under Xi’s […]
Read MoreGlobal Times Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese Foreign Minister, concluded his visit to the US from October 26 to 28. This is the first dedicated visit by a senior Chinese official to the US since the recent series of successive visits by […]
Read MoreThe Friday Times As a deadline looms for undocumented and illegal migrants to leave Pakistan, including a large number of Afghan refugees, Kabul has indicated that it remains in talks with Islamabad on the matter, hoping to find a middle ground on the subject even as it anticipates and prepares for addressing a large responsibility. […]
Read MoreGlobal Times This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping. Through the lens of foreign pundits, we take a look at 10 years of the BRI – how it achieves win-win cooperation between China and participating countries of the BRI and how it has […]
Read MoreGlobal Times California Governor Gavin Newsom begins his week-long trip to China Monday. He will lead a delegation to visit Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai, and Jiangsu Province. Even though the visit is not short, the schedule is very full, demonstrating Newsom’s keen desire to make the most of this trip by visiting as […]
Read MoreHu Xijin Due to suspected illegal activities, Xu Jiayin, board chairman of China Evergrande Group, has been placed under mandatory measures by local authorities. Upon hearing this news, my initial reaction was, what will happen to those who have purchased Evergrande properties? This is probably the biggest question for many people. I strongly hope and […]
Read MoreGlobal Times The world seems to have been set ablaze by the flames of war that have broken out in the Middle East. The re-emergence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict demonstrates that the world is still in a transitional phase between the old and new epochs and has not yet moved beyond the post-World War II […]
Read MoreHarvey Dzodin – China Daily I’ve lived in China for most of this century. It was on Feb 20, 2020, that I left for Vienna, Austria, when the COVID-19 pandemic was becoming a serious health threat globally. For much of the time that I have lived in Beijing and traveled around China, millions of foreign […]
Read MoreAdnan Hameed In an era where the flow of information is ceaseless and the media wields an unparalleled influence on public opinion, the role of media professionals has become more pivotal than ever before. It is in this dynamic landscape that I had the privilege of participating in an enlightening seminar designed to nurture the […]
Read MoreZheng Yongnian While hostile sentiment against China grows in the US, there is also growing antipathy toward the US among the Chinese general public. This is true, especially on social media, where nationalist sentiment is somewhat elevated among some Chinese people. However, generally speaking, such sentiment is not strong among Chinese people. If we discuss […]
Read MoreGlobal Times September 30 of this year marked the 10th Martyrs’ Day in China. On the morning of that very day, in Tian’anmen Square in downtown Beijing, President Xi Jinping and other leaders of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the state presented flower baskets to fallen national heroes. Since 2014, when the Standing […]
Read MoreGlobal Times China’s National Day, which falls on October 1, is just around the corner. For the Chinese people, September 30 marks the start of a seven-day holiday following the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the upcoming days, they will enjoy the happiness and joy of the “long holiday,” which they have earned through their hard work. […]
Read MoreGlobal Times The 10th China-European Union High-Level Economic and Trade Dialogue will be held on Monday in Beijing. As the highest-level dialogue mechanism in the field of trade and economic cooperation between China and the EU and one of the “three pillars” of China-EU relations, the Dialogue has always been the main channel for the […]
Read MoreHu Xijin The most significance of the Huawei Mate 60 Pro lies in its ability to bypass the US sanctions wall and open up new horizons. The sanctions imposed by the US on Huawei and Chinese companies may now be extended to companies such as Qualcomm, Nvidia, Intel, TSMC, Samsung, and others. If it is […]
Read MoreGlobal Times Starting from Monday, the high-level week of the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) will begin and last until September 26. Compared to previous ones, this year’s UNGA has placed a greater emphasis on the “Global South” countries. Several high-level meetings to be held during the General Assembly will focus on the priorities […]
Read MoreDing Gang At the end of 2019, I accompanied an American and German media delegation to the offices of Chinese tech giant Huawei. Although it was only for one day, this brief encounter gave me a deeper understanding of this company. In May of the following year, when Washington imposed a severe embargo to cut […]
Read MoreDing Gang Whenever I chat online with my friends in the US, we always end up discussing inflation. In a recent conversation, a friend told me that the price of organic eggs has increased. At the beginning of the year 24 eggs cost $6.69, and now they cost $6.99. Building materials for remodeling have roughly […]
Read MoreZhao Huanxin The trade friction between the United States and China does not signify a tipping point in the Sino-US relationship, experts have said, even though the two countries have slapped tariffs on billions of dollars of each other’s goods. After the conclusion of the hearings on the US administration’s proposal to impose 25 percent […]
Read MoreChen Weihua US President Joe Biden wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on August 26 that “after Vietnam, we learned how the harmful effects of exposure to Agent Orange took years to manifest in veterans, leaving too many unable to access care when they needed and deserved it”. “The PACT Act means today’s veterans and their […]
Read MoreChina Daily The tourism industry’s recovery, which started with the lifting of the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in December 2022, has gathered momentum with the summer vacation witnessing a boom in domestic tourism and a slight rebound in outbound tourism. On the one hand, there is a surge in the number of passengers at airports and […]
Read MoreChina Daily A video clip published on social media by his office on Wednesday shows Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida purportedly savoring food from Fukushima with three of his ministers. “Safe and deliciously crispy,” he contentedly purrs after eating a slice of raw octopus tentacle seasoned with soy sauce and mustard. But many people will […]
Read MoreDing Gang “Will China, under deflation, go the way of the Soviet Union?” I laughed when I saw this title.This title was given by Professor Xu Chenggang, a senior research scholar at the Stanford Center on China’s Economic and Institutions.Decades after China has developed from a poor and backward country to the second-largest economy in […]
Read MoreHu Xijin US President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday restricting investments in China, intended to further stymie China’s advances in three cutting-edge technology areas: semiconductors and microelectronics, quantum information technologies and certain artificial intelligence systems. The “decoupling” of high tech from China began under Donald Trump, and the Biden administration has continued […]
Read MoreChina Daily Chinese and US flags flutter outside the building of an American company in Beijing. [Photo/Agencies] China and the United States are arguably each other’s No 1 partners in scientific research, with collaborative research between people of both countries being among the most-cited papers across fields. This is what Ohio State University Professor Caroline […]
Read MoreChina Daily The 15th BRICS summit is scheduled to take place in South Africa on Aug 22 to 24, with the theme “BRICS and Africa: Partnership for Mutually Accelerated Growth, Sustainable Development and Inclusive Multilateralism”. The upcoming summit will push the global agenda to refocus on development issues and prompt the international community to return […]
Read MoreChina Daily The pressure toward the diversification of world currency reserves is longstanding. It intensified after 2008, but has escalated since 2022. It is a prime topic in the next BRICS Summit that’s likely to further intensify the trend. In 2016, US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew cautioned that “the more we condition the use of […]
Read MoreChina Daily As a veteran on bilateral friendship and cooperation, I cannot help but feel a profound sense of melancholy upon learning of Italy’s reported consideration to no longer extend the cooperative agreement for the Belt and Road Initiative. This decision, if implemented, would undoubtedly have far-reaching implications for the future of Italy-China relations. It […]
Read MoreGlobal Times Building a Beautiful China plays a huge part in building a great modern socialist country and advancing national rejuvenation. At a recent national conference on ecological and environmental protection, Chinese President Xi Jinping said China should support high-quality development with a high-quality ecological environment and promote modernization featuring the harmonious co-existence between human […]
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