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China diversifies iron ore sources amid strained ties with Australia

GT staff reporters April 07, 2021

China diversifies iron ore sources amid strained ties with Australia

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

Chinese consumption fires on all cylinders during Qingming Festival holidays

Xie Jun April 07, 2021

Chinese consumption fires on all cylinders during Qingming Festival holidays

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-Iran deal shows US suppression won’t deter win-win cooperation

Qian Feng April 04, 2021

China-Iran deal shows US suppression won’t deter win-win cooperation

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

China’s top legislature unanimously approves HK electoral overhaul plan, laying out details

Chen Qingqing April 04, 2021

China’s top legislature unanimously approves HK electoral overhaul plan, laying out details

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 welcomed to visit Xinjiang cotton fields, textile companies to ‘make wise choice’

Zhang Hui April 04, 2021

Foreign enterprises welcomed to visit Xinjiang cotton fields, textile companies to ‘make wise choice’

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

China will counteract against attempts to stir up S.China Sea issues

Yang Xiyu April 04, 2021

China will counteract against attempts to stir up S.China Sea issues

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

A battle between democracy and autocracy, but not as Biden describes

Wang Wenwen April 01, 2021

A battle between democracy and autocracy, but not as Biden describes

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

Global brands should avoid Xinjiang hack-trap

Mario Cavolo March 30, 2021

Global brands should avoid Xinjiang hack-trap

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

US’ dual China, Russia containment won’t work; governance is key, not ideology

Dmitri Trenin March 30, 2021

US’ dual China, Russia containment won’t work; governance is key, not ideology

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

PLA’s largest near-Taiwan exercise features bombers to island’s east, ‘blocks foreign interventions’

Liu Xuanzun March 29, 2021

PLA’s largest near-Taiwan exercise features bombers to island’s east, ‘blocks foreign interventions’

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

Americans’ disgust with own govt grows as Chinese officials criticize US human rights

Chen Shasha March 29, 2021

Americans’ disgust with own govt grows as Chinese officials criticize US human rights

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

Human rights hypocrite

Left Review Online March 29, 2021

Human rights hypocrite

Cartoon: Illustration: Chen Xia/GT (In association with Global Times)More

CPC releases logo for 100th anniversary activities

Left Review Online March 29, 2021

CPC releases logo for 100th anniversary activities

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

China, Russia to break US hold on ‘world order’

Yang Sheng and Fan Anqi March 28, 2021

China, Russia to break US hold on ‘world order’

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

US can’t accept painful fact that China is now its equal: Martin Jacques

Left Review Online March 27, 2021

US can’t accept painful fact that China is now its equal: Martin Jacques

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