China's vast rural areas are facing increasing challenges as people are returning home from cities for the upcoming new year and Spring Festival holidays, while the country is fighting a COVID-19 infection surge. To deal with possible impacts on rural areas, Chinese authorities have ramped up efforts to...More

Beijing plans to distribute Pfizer's COVID-19 treatment drug Paxlovid to community health centers in a bid to help treatment of key populations as the city's peak caseload approaches, the Global Times learned from an online training session for doctors and nursing staff about how to direct patients to...More

When a powerful and deadly storm swept North America, blacking out cities and freezing Christmas enthusiasm, Europe is engulfed by strikes due to skyrocketing prices as well as more crises including hate crimes and unemployment. The West is set to conclude 2022 and greet 2023 in a gloomy...More

Just before disbanding for the Christmas holidays, the US Congress passed a $45 billion "aid" package for Ukraine. Before Zelensky's speech on Wednesday, US President Joe Biden announced another $2.2 billion that will immediately go to Kiev, mainly as weapons and ammunition. This includes a single battery of...More

Last week, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán called for the European Parliament to be abolished. The reason is the scandal known as "Qatargate," which relates to accusations of corruption which have rocked the European Parliament in recent weeks. Orbán proposed creating a new European Parliament, consisting of national...More

The task ahead is "Herculean," said John Lander when asked what he thought Penny Wong's chances of pulling off a reset in the relations between China and Australia. In a recent interview to commemorate the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Australia, John Lander, former Deputy...More

When China carried out dynamic zero-COVID approach, some Western media had been calling for China to reopen. But when China recently eased its COVID-19 measures, not surprisingly, they badmouth China's move. Some Western media have recently slandered China's adjustment of the epidemic prevention and control policy from various...More

From populous metropolises to small inland cities, different localities across China are striving to accelerate the pace of resuming work and production against the backdrop of major changes in COVID-19 response under the principle of the “10 new measures.” Local authorities have rolled out policies to reduce enterprises’...More

Australia's Foreign Minister is scheduled to visit China from Tuesday to Wednesday, with analysts viewing it as an "ice-breaking" diplomatic activity, as this is the first time a ministerial-level senior official from Canberra will visit China since 2019. They noted that China appreciates Australia's attitude to correct the...More

Chinese cities and medical institutions are ramping up efforts to expand intensive care units (ICUs) and boost their reserves of medical resources and treatment facilities for severe COVID-19 cases in a bid to strengthen medical treatment capabilities to cope with the COVID-19 peak. Observers said that as the...More

A Chinese Navy survey ship sailed through the Tokara Strait, a strait for free international navigation, rather than Japan's territorial waters, the Global Times learned on Monday after Japan had accused the Chinese vessel of entering its territorial waters. Japan's Ministry of Defense said on Monday that "it...More

Editor's Note: The 2023 Global Times Annual Conference themed on "China and the World after the 20th CPC National Congress" was held in Beijing on Saturday. To understand the importance of China's stability to the changing world and explore what China should do to better grasp opportunities amid...More

EU member states on Sunday reached a deal to overhaul the bloc's carbon market while finalizing the details of the world's first major carbon border tax and introducing the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), which will force foreign importers to cover the cost of their carbon emissions starting...More

I have been asked to write an op-ed on the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Australia, an event which I remember gave many people in Australia great satisfaction. I was a new Third Secretary on a posting to Islamabad, Pakistan, when I...More

The US is prepared to help China deal with a surge of COVID-19 infections if Beijing requests assistance, the White House hypocritically said on Wednesday. The US and the West, from day one, have constantly attacked and badmouthed China's fight against the pandemic. They have constantly hyped up...More