GT staff reporters April 07, 2021
Chinese companies are diversifying their exploitation of iron ore in Africa at a record pace amid soaring prices and strained relations with Australia, which experts said signals that China is reducing reliance on "unfriendly" Australia for this key resource. They urged Australia to correct its mistakes and steer...More
China's consumption is firing on all cylinders including tourism and box office in the three-day Qingming Festival holidays to a level that is approaching, or even surpasses that of 2019, industry practitioners and companies said, as Chinese consumers rushed to unleash their spending desires after the country lifted...More
China and Iran have recently signed a major 25-year agreement to enhance comprehensive cooperation in fields such as trade. Given its great scale and implications, the agreement has attracted widespread attention from many Western media outlets, with some already warning China's rising "influence" in the Middle East. Under...More
After a two-day meeting of the Standing Committee of China's top legislative body and rounds of discussions, Chinese top lawmakers have unanimously approved the Hong Kong electoral reform plan, with revised measures for electing the Hong Kong chief executive and the formation of the Legislative Council (LegCo), which...More
Foreign enterprises are welcomed to visit local Xinjiang cotton producing areas and textile companies, talk to cotton growers to make a wise choice, the local Xinjiang government said on Monday, while denouncing Western countries putting "genocide" label on Xinjiang as the "biggest case of a frame-up in human...More
The foreign and defense ministers of Japan and Indonesia are scheduled to hold 2+2 talks on Tuesday in Tokyo. This is the second time of its kind since December 2015. One of the focuses is very likely to be the South China Sea issues. This likely means China...More
More than two months into the Joe Biden presidency, it seems that he still uses the outdated Cold War framework to define the 21st century major power relations between China and the US. In his first press briefing on Thursday since taking office, he said the US-China relationship...More
Sometimes in life, the best defense is a strong offense. That time has finally arrived and I for one could not be more pleased that is the case. Several weeks earlier, I had predicted that in the face of an endless barrage of false accusations this past year,...More
Throughout the 20th century, strategic wisdom dictated to US statesmen never to allow the world's island - namely, the Eurasian continent - to be dominated by one hegemonic power, or a single alliance. This logic brought the US into the World War II. Germany was then seeking the...More
The warplane exercise by the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) near the island of Taiwan on Friday is not only the largest since the PLA started routine exercises in the region last year, but also a rare one that saw bombers flying to the eastern side of the...More
A senior Chinese official's sharp criticism of the US' human rights situation has triggered a negative response from the American people toward the US' human rights and democratic systems, a report based on sentiment analysis by Chinese researchers showed. Experts said that the criticism made by Yang Jiechi,...More
Kathmandu. The Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Wednesday released the official logo for activities to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC. (Source: CGTN)More
When the US vowed to return to multilateralism and try to fix its alliance by stressing values of "democracy and human rights" and forming cliques to confront other countries that reject US hegemony, China and Russia have stood up to break the silence and provide their definition of...More
We learnt two things from the China-US high-level dialogue held in Alaska last week. The first was from the session at the beginning when the media were present. This would normally be conducted in a polite and somewhat anodyne fashion dressed up in diplomatic nicety. It could not...More