Left Review Online January 14, 2023
On Friday, China released the 10th edition of the COVID-19 prevention and control protocol. Moreover, starting from Sunday, the country downgraded the management of COVID-19 from Class A to Class B and lifted quarantine requirements for inbound travelers. The policy shift indicates that the focus of the country's...More
Editor's Note: The Pakistan Navy plans to host the AMAN-23 multinational maritime exercise in February 2023, with the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy, having taken part in previous editions, are again expected to participate. China and Pakistan have been maintaining close naval and maritime exchanges and cooperation...More
What the Brazilians had feared happened. But when the shoe dropped, it still shocked Brazil and the rest of the world. On Sunday afternoon, thousands of demonstrators who were dissatisfied with the results of the presidential election invaded institutions such as the Congress, the Supreme Court and the...More
What to focus on in a global public health crisis? Saving lives or chasing profit? Different countries and interest groups have given different answers. One latest example has happened in China. Pfizer's COVID treatment drug, Paxlovid, did not make it into China's national medical insurance program, as the...More
At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. will pay a state visit to China from Tuesday to Thursday, which experts believe will promote China-Philippines relations to enter a "golden era" and fully demonstrates that China and the Philippines have embarked on...More
China will unswervingly deepen economic reform and focus on solving prominent problems faced by private enterprises in order to promote the growth of the private economy, said a leading official with the country's top economic planner, as government agencies express support for the healthy development of the private...More
Shanghai has detected the Omicron subvariants BQ.1 and XBB that have been prevailing in some overseas countries but experts said the two mutant strains were found in imported cases placed under closed-loop management which has not caused local transmission, saying there is no need to hoard Montmorillonite powder...More
Officials from the National Health Commission (NHC) said that the government has anticipated increased demand for medical treatment while optimizing epidemic prevention measures, and is trying to delay peak infections as much as possible by increasing the number of fever clinics and medicines. The remarks were made as...More
Echoing increasing cooperation between China and Nepal, a new international airport built by a Chinese company with Chinese loans was inaugurated in Nepal on Sunday, with officials from both countries hailing the project as a major success of bilateral cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The...More
According to a CNN report, the incoming chairman of the new House Select Committee on China GOP Rep Mike Gallagher in a media interview labeled TikTok as "digital fentanyl" China's government is providing to Americans. Even though it has already been politically correct to be anti-China in Washington,...More
With the advent of 2023, whether China-US relations, one of the most important bilateral ties in the world today, can stabilize after the ups and downs in the past year has drawn worldwide attention. At the beginning of the New Year, Chinese Foreign Minister Ambassador Qin Gang held...More
Philippine President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. will be going to the People's Republic of China on January 3, 2023 on his first state visit reaffirming Philippine ties with China which he has described the "strongest partner" of his country. In 1974,he accompanied mother First Lady Imelda R. Marcos...More
Editor's Note: From many perspectives, the world is in danger of being drawn into long-term trouble right before our eyes. Greater risk of outbreak of new conflicts bubbles amid a lingering pandemic, the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict and the plague of soaring inflation and an energy crisis. Against this...More
Editor's Note: Who is the Communist Party of China (CPC)? What is the CPC's role in the new era? The CPC has grown into one of the largest ruling parties in the world in the process of leading the Chinese people in seeking liberation and happiness, making China...More
The joint drills by the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) around the island of Taiwan on Sunday in response to the recent escalation in the US-Taiwan collusion were record-breaking, surpassing even the peak number observed in the large-scale PLA drills held in August following US House Speaker Nancy...More