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Poverty eradication miracle in numbers

Left Review Online September 03, 2021

Poverty eradication miracle in numbers

Editor's Note: On July 1, China declared that it has reached its first centennial development goal - building a moderately prosperous society, or xiaokang, in all respects and is marching in confident strides toward the second centennial goal of building the nation into a great modern socialist country. To...More

China to offer ‘genuine’ aid in Afghanistan’s economic reconstruction amid chaotic transition

Left Review Online September 02, 2021

China to offer ‘genuine’ aid in Afghanistan’s economic reconstruction amid chaotic transition

As Taliban take steps to stabilize the situation and pursue international recognition, Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and private firms are employing different investment strategies in the war-torn country, with the former exercising extreme caution in carrying out new projects and the latter eager to tap into a market...More

Referring to the Global Times exclusive, FM spokesperson condemns US coercing China’s neighbors with vaccines to join virus origins smear campaign as ‘immoral, irresponsible’

Cao Siqi September 02, 2021

Referring to the Global Times exclusive, FM spokesperson condemns US coercing China’s neighbors with vaccines to join virus origins smear campaign as ‘immoral, irresponsible’

Hua Chunying, spokesperson for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on Friday condemned US coercion of China's neighboring countries with vaccines to join the COVID-19 origins smear campaign as "immoral, irresponsible and reprehensible," referring to an exclusive report by the Global Times revealing the US trick. The US has...More

More early COVID-19 cases of humans, animals need to be tested for virus origins tracing

Left Review Online September 01, 2021

More early COVID-19 cases of humans, animals need to be tested for virus origins tracing

While the World Health Organization (WHO) is planning its next phase of COVID-19 origins study, China has made it clear that the next-phase study should be carried out in multiple places worldwide, including places outside China where samples of human and animal before the Wuhan outbreak were tested...More

Coronavirus origins: Science vs. Politics

Left Review Online September 01, 2021

Coronavirus origins: Science vs. Politics

Although the US government has been coercing global scientists lately and pushing forward the lab leak hypothesis as its intelligence community-led 90-day origins probe deadline looms, more scientists spoke out in rejecting the conspiracy without yielding to mounting political pressure and continuing on their scientific path. The latest...More

Politicizing virus origins tracing reflects US’ political inferiority complex: Alexey Mukhin, Russian scholar

Xia Wenxin September 01, 2021

Politicizing virus origins tracing reflects US’ political inferiority complex: Alexey Mukhin, Russian scholar

Editor's Note: The 90th day since US President Joe Biden ordered US intelligence in May to investigate the origins of COVID-19, including the "lab leak" theory that the US administration has been using to smear and attack China, is approaching. It is clear that the US has once again...More

US sensationalizes COVID-19 origins tracing as propaganda game: Prof. Marcos Cordeiro Pires, Brazil

Li Qingqing and Yu Jincui August 28, 2021

US sensationalizes COVID-19 origins tracing as propaganda game: Prof. Marcos Cordeiro Pires, Brazil

Editor's Note: The deadline of the 90-day investigation into the coronavirus origins set by the Biden administration draws near, and US intelligence agencies are reportedly gearing up their efforts to compile a report. Do these intelligence agencies have the ability and reliability to trace where the virus comes from?...More

The US has the moral responsibility over the flood of refugees in Afghanistan

Ding Long August 28, 2021

The US has the moral responsibility over the flood of refugees in Afghanistan

The most turbulent place in Afghanistan since the fall of the Afghan government has been not in Kabul the capital city but at the Kabul international airport. For days, it has witnessed a déjà vu "Saigon moment," with the flood of Afghans desperate, even dying, to get out...More

Leave geopolitical tactics behind to uncover full facts about COVID-19: Former Belgian PM Yves Leterme

Lu Yuanzhi August 26, 2021

Leave geopolitical tactics behind to uncover full facts about COVID-19: Former Belgian PM Yves Leterme

Editor's Note: "It is in the interest of all to leave geopolitical tactics behind and to uncover the full facts," said former Belgian prime minister Yves Leterme, commenting on the US' recent offensives against China over the origins tracing of the coronavirus. When it comes to the role...More

Defeat in Afghanistan a complete humiliation for the US: Martin Jacques

Martin Jacques August 26, 2021

Defeat in Afghanistan a complete humiliation for the US: Martin Jacques

The US is confronted with a historic defeat in Afghanistan at the hands of the Taliban. America's longest war, which began in 2001, is ending in complete humiliation. The Taliban has captured the countryside, every major city and now Kabul has effectively fallen. This is Saigon in 1975...More

HRW politicizes human rights with a biased report attacking Cambodian dam project

Suos Yara August 26, 2021

HRW politicizes human rights with a biased report attacking Cambodian dam project

Human rights are for humanity, not for Human Rights Watch (HRW). Human rights must be understood and approached based on the context and the stage of nation building and state building. Above all, human rights must not be politicized in the way HRW has done. To understand the...More

Senator reveals ‘30,000 US troops stationed in Taiwan island,’ equal to ‘declaring war on China’ if it’s true; tweet deleted after wide controversy

Liu Caiyu August 25, 2021

Senator reveals ‘30,000 US troops stationed in Taiwan island,’ equal to ‘declaring war on China’ if it’s true; tweet deleted after wide controversy

A senior US senator, also a member of US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on his social media revealed that the US has 30,000 soldiers stationed in China's Taiwan island. If the tweet is correct, it is a military invasion and occupation of China's Taiwan and equivalent to...More

Newly disclosed germ warfare archives reveal US helped Japanese war criminals escape trial in exchange for bio materials

Liu Caiyu August 25, 2021

Newly disclosed germ warfare archives reveal US helped Japanese war criminals escape trial in exchange for bio materials

More concrete evidence of Japanese troop's atrocity of germ warfare during World War II has been made public, as confessions of a commander of the Japanese germ warfare unit to the US after the war were released in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, which also disclosed the shocking secret...More

Kabul’s ‘Saigon moment:’ US trapped in the puzzle of how to end its strategic profligacy properly and decently

Shen Yi August 25, 2021

Kabul’s ‘Saigon moment:’ US trapped in the puzzle of how to end its strategic profligacy properly and decently

August 15, the day that marked the 76th anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender in World War II, also witnessed the capital of Afghanistan being taken over by the Taliban at a stunning speed and with almost no bloodshed. US' practices in Afghanistan, which began in 2001 and ended...More

Using Afghanistan as a guide, will US treatment of Taiwan island be any different?

Franz Gayl August 25, 2021

Using Afghanistan as a guide, will US treatment of Taiwan island be any different?

Question: What do Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Lebanon and Vietnam share in common? Answer: Abandonment by an imperialist US. It is quite natural for a gambler to quit and cut their losses when bets and investments go sour. So it was with colonialism, and so it goes again with...More