Global Times The US move to eliminate Hong Kong’s special status serves its own strategic goal – to contain China. Yet China is perfectly justified to safeguard its own national security. It won’t flinch if the US continues interfering in China’s domestic affairs and threatening China’s sovereignty and national interests. It is not unanticipated that […]
Read MoreBy Bilal Thaheem Taxila: Taxila Heavy Mechanical Complex (HMC) built in 1971 and Heavy Foundry & Forge (HFF) in 1977 with the financial and technical assistance of China at Taxila about 30 km north of the capital city is a symbol of ‘Pak-China Friendship’. The HMC once a subsidiary of State Engineering Corporation (SEC) is […]
Read MoreChina’s top legislature reviewed a draft law on safeguarding national security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) of the People’s Republic of China, during the legislative session. This is a crucial step in establishing and improving the legal system and enforcement mechanisms for the HKSAR to safeguard national security. The legislation fully embodies […]
Read MoreBeijing: Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi called for a just and reasonable solution to the Palestine issue when delivering a written speech on Wednesday local time at the United Nations (UN) Security Council’s video conference over the matter. The Palestine issue has always been at the core of the Middle East issue […]
Read MoreBy Wang Wen – Global Times When new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Beijing in the past weekend, I was attending a forum on the “Air Silk Road” in Zhengzhou, capital city of Central China’s Henan Province. I was quite nervous, frankly speaking, and I kept my face mask on in the meeting […]
Read MoreBy Li Qingqing – Global Times Amid China-India border disputes, some Indian experts suggested that India should “rethink” the one-China principle at a webinar on Friday. Some hawkish Indian experts, including former Indian deputy national security adviser Arvind Gupta, raised the idea that India should support the “democratic movement” in Hong Kong, increase India’s “economic […]
Read MoreBy Wang Wen – Global Times In my office hangs an antique world map drawn in 1717, on which Antarctica, the Arctic Ocean, Alaska, and Hawaii are absent. The Mercator projection was already widely adopted in drawing maps with parallels and meridians back then and it facilitated navigation. Thanks to the development of map projection, […]
Read MoreBy Wang Wen – Global Times I live in Wangjing, a quite internationalized area in Beijing. Many Fortune 500 companies are headquartered there, and 10 percent of the around 600,000 residents are expats. Every weekend, I take walks in Wangjing’s many parks to exercise and watch the changes in the city. There have been no […]
Read MoreIslamabad: PPP senior leader, Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior and former Interior Minister Senator A. Rehman Malik on Tuesday through his lawyers served another defamation notice to US Citizen Cynthia D. Ritchie over false, frivolous and baseless allegation of rape against him in talk shows on different private Television channels. Senator A. Rehman Malik […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday said Pakistan had been hosting the Afghan refugees for four decades and would also take care of them during the coronavirus pandemic. He was addressing the virtual international conference held on the subject of the status of refugees and homeless persons amid the COVID-19 situation. Foreign Minister […]
Read MoreBy Nick Kolakowski Are H-1B workers underpaid, or does their compensation match industry standards? That’s a key question debated by the Economic Policy Institute and the Cato Institute, both of which have done deep dives into H-1B salaries over the past several weeks. The Economic Policy Institute issued a lengthy report at the beginning of […]
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