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Phased progress as Sinopharm speeds up developing Delta-specific vaccines

Leng Shumei August 24, 2021

Phased progress as Sinopharm speeds up developing Delta-specific vaccines

An institute in Wuhan, under the China National Biotec Group (CNBG), a subsidiary of Sinopharm, has isolated the Delta variant of the novel coronavirus and is accelerating development on Delta-specific vaccines, its director told the media. The new Delta variant spread to Wuhan after about a year of...More

Taliban’s rapid victory embarrasses US, smashes image, arrogance

Yang Sheng and Cui Fandi August 24, 2021

Taliban’s rapid victory embarrasses US, smashes image, arrogance

The Afghan Taliban have successfully returned to Kabul and are ready to set up a new government while the hasty US retreat, which had caused deaths to locals, makes the end of the 20-year-long war look increasingly embarrassing to the US. The UN Security Council held an emergency...More

US ambassadorship to China still vacant; role ‘quite limited as Biden prefers higher-level talks with China’

Bai Yunyi August 16, 2021

US ambassadorship to China still vacant; role ‘quite limited as Biden prefers higher-level talks with China’

As the position of US ambassador to China remains vacant after over 10 months, a rare occurrence since the two countries established diplomatic ties, Chinese experts on US affairs believe that the Biden administration wants to prioritize direct talks with China through higher-level officials because the role of...More

Source refutes Aussie journalist’s rumor that researcher at Beijing lab infected with coronavirus at work

Xie Wenting and Bai Yunyi August 16, 2021

Source refutes Aussie journalist’s rumor that researcher at Beijing lab infected with coronavirus at work

As US President Joe Biden's deadline for the intelligence community to hand over the report of the origins of coronavirus approaches, Australia's right-wing newspaper The Australian and some US tabloids are churning out another vicious rumor that the "coronavirus comes from a Chinese lab." This time they smeared...More

For US elites, Asian civilian casualties are acceptable collateral damage

Franz Gayl August 16, 2021

For US elites, Asian civilian casualties are acceptable collateral damage

The US has publicly expressed concern that the People's Republic of China (PRC) is modernizing its defensive strategic weapons capabilities. All the while, it is known in the public domain that Washington is always ready with an immeasurably more powerful arsenal of nuclear weapons. Since our allegedly moral...More

US consulate pressures firms to leave HK in fresh attempt to sow chaos in the city

Shen Weiduo and Zhao Juecheng August 15, 2021

US consulate pressures firms to leave HK in fresh attempt to sow chaos in the city

After issuing a warning to US firms over the "risks" of doing business in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), the US government has taken a step further and sought to pressure businesses to leave the city, in a fresh attempt to sow chaos in the city...More

US No. 1 failure in anti-epidemic fight: Think Tanks

Chen Qingqing and Liu Caiyu August 15, 2021

US No. 1 failure in anti-epidemic fight: Think Tanks

Does the US rank No. 1 in COVID-19 resilience? A report jointly issued by three Chinese think tanks on Monday unveiled the truth of America's fight against the coronavirus, which indicates that the US deserves to be the world's No. 1 anti-pandemic failure, apart from being the No....More

Biden will not abandon US’ One China policy: US scholar Michael D. Swaine

Li Qingqing August 15, 2021

Biden will not abandon US’ One China policy: US scholar Michael D. Swaine

Editor's Note: As a bipartisan "anti-China" consensus seems to become increasingly solid in the US and the US' foreign policy is showing more recklessness, how will the US' China policy develop in the future? How can the impasse of China-US relations be broken and move the ties forward?...More

India no cure for Australia’s trade woes

Left Review Online August 15, 2021

India no cure for Australia’s trade woes

In an opinion piece published in The Australian newspaper on Monday, former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott claimed when it came to Australia's trade policy the "answer to almost every question about China is India." "Because trade deals are about politics as much as economics, a swift deal...More

We will counter the US on the principle of power for power and goodwill for goodwill – Kim Yo Jong

Left Review Online August 15, 2021

We will counter the US on the principle of power for power and goodwill for goodwill – Kim Yo Jong

Kathmandu. Kim Yo Jong, vice-department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), challenged to the US for countering it on the principle of power for power and goodwill for goodwill and claimed that decision to steadily build up the capabilities for national defence...More

US bombing Taliban in an attempt to exert control in post-withdrawal era

Qian Feng August 14, 2021

US bombing Taliban in an attempt to exert control in post-withdrawal era

US President Joe Biden has ordered B-52 bombers and Specter gunships to target Taliban positions in Afghanistan. The Taliban are advancing toward key cities, according to Kabul-based Tolo News on Saturday. This embodies the US' deep concern about the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan. Washington is worried that...More

COVID origins tracing must stop being politicized and return to reason and science: Jeffrey Sachs

Left Review Online August 14, 2021

COVID origins tracing must stop being politicized and return to reason and science: Jeffrey Sachs

Editor's Note: The only legitimate goal of the novel coronavirus origins tracing should be "to understand SARS-CoV-2 and work cooperatively together to end the pandemic and to prevent future pandemics," said Jeffrey Sachs, a professor of economics at Columbia University in New York and head of the Lancet COVID-19...More

Some 2019 EVALI patients in the US may have been infected with COVID-19: Sources

GT staff reporters August 11, 2021

Some 2019 EVALI patients in the US may have been infected with COVID-19: Sources

It's possible that some of the patients of the mysterious vaping-related lung disease that swept through all of the 50 US states in 2019 were actually COVID-19 patients, according to a group of Chinese scientists and radiologists after reviewing some 250 chest CT scans from published papers. These...More

Internal US politics drives country’s conflict, not COVID-19 or China: Carsten Boyer Thøgersen

Yu Jincui and Lu Yuanzhi August 11, 2021

Internal US politics drives country’s conflict, not COVID-19 or China: Carsten Boyer Thøgersen

Editor's Note: "No alternative to the CPC in terms of people or a party with a program and a vision is known of inside or outside China," said Carsten Boyer Thøgersen (Thøgersen), a former diplomat with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and the European Commission. How...More

There should be an international investigation into why the West failed so disastrously: Martin Jacques

Martin Jacques August 08, 2021

There should be an international investigation into why the West failed so disastrously: Martin Jacques

COVID-19 arrived three years after the anti-China crusade began. From the outset the virus was infused with Cold War politics. Imagine if the first case of COVID-19 had occurred at the end of 2012 rather than the end of 2019. Many things would have been the same, but...More