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China’s biggest challenge will be balancing US ties amid high tensions

Zhu Feng August 17, 2020

China’s biggest challenge will be balancing US ties amid high tensions

Trump's suppression of China-US ties and hatred against China since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus are now blatantly challenging the value of free and open markets and the one-China policy. The game with the US will become China's most complex, acute and critical long-term strategic task in...More

Kim Jong Un appoints Kim Tok Hun as new Prime Minister of the DPRK

Left Review Online August 15, 2020

Kim Jong Un appoints Kim Tok Hun as new Prime Minister of the DPRK

Kathmandu. Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission (SAC) of the DPRK and supreme leader of the Korean people, appointed Kim Tok Hun as a new Prime Minister (Premier) of the Cabinet of the Demecoartic Peoples' Republic of Korea, KCNA reported. A decree of the State...More

90% Chinese netizens disfavor US amid tensions, support strong retaliation against US: GT online survey

Yang Sheng August 15, 2020

90% Chinese netizens disfavor US amid tensions, support strong retaliation against US: GT online survey

Beijing. Retaliation measures enforced by the Chinese government in response to US provocations are overwhelmingly supported by the public, and increasingly more Chinese people disfavor the US amid the recent spate of unprecedented tensions since the two countries established diplomatic ties in the late 1970s, a survey showed...More

Tibetan villagers escape poverty, protect borders in Southwest China

Zhao Juecheng August 15, 2020

Tibetan villagers escape poverty, protect borders in Southwest China

Beijing. Traveling about 40 kilometers along the winding mountain road from Nacuo county in Shannan, Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, the altitude decreased sharply from 4,380 meters above the sea level to 2,800 meters where the Lebugou border region sits. Lebugou borders India and Bhutan. Standing on the...More

US ‘democracy bubble’ bankrupts during pandemic, turns off Chinese netizens: GT poll

Zhang Han August 15, 2020

US ‘democracy bubble’ bankrupts during pandemic, turns off Chinese netizens: GT poll

Beijing. The latest poll by the Global Times on China-US relations shows US likeability among Chinese people is waning, as its "democracy bubble" bankrupted during pandemic. The poll received more than 146,000 responses by Tuesday afternoon with 31 percent of respondents saying they "used to like the US...More

UN Security Council rejects US proposal to extend arms embargo on Iran

Left Review Online August 15, 2020

UN Security Council rejects US proposal to extend arms embargo on Iran

Kathmandu. With an electoral shock to the US President Donald Trump, the United Nations Security Council late Friday rejected a resolution from the US to extend an arms embargo on Iran set to expire in October. The US that claims of creating and leading a new world order...More

Cuba and the United Nations signed the UN Framework Cooperation Agreement

Abel Gonzalez Alayon August 15, 2020

Cuba and the United Nations signed the UN Framework Cooperation Agreement

Havana, Aug 13. Cuba and the United Nations System (UNS) signed Thursday the United Nations Framework for Cooperation for Sustainable Development, which will guide the support of the different agencies, funds and programs over the next four years. Rodrigo Malmierca, head of the Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment...More

CPI ML Liberation pledges on the Independence Day 2020 : Freedom from Fascism

Left Review Online August 15, 2020

CPI ML Liberation pledges on the Independence Day 2020 : Freedom from Fascism

August is India’s month of independence. This year as India celebrates the seventy-third anniversary of the country’s independence, the celebrations are however bound to be unprecedentedly muted. Not just because of the mandatory restriction on assemblies of people and the physical distance that citizens are expected to maintain...More

Controlling Covid-19 is best tribute to Fidel Castro – President Miguel Diaz-Canel

Left Review Online August 14, 2020

Controlling Covid-19 is best tribute to Fidel Castro – President Miguel Diaz-Canel

Havana, Aug 13. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on Thursday that the best tribute to Fidel Castro, the leader of the Cuban Revolution, is to control the new outbreaks of the Covid-19 pandemic. On occasion of the 94th anniversary of his birth, the president stressed that the successes...More

Science Center Honors Fidel Castro in Nicaragua

Left Review Online August 14, 2020

Science Center Honors Fidel Castro in Nicaragua

Managua, Aug 13 (Prensa Latina). This Thursday, 94 years after the birth of Fidel Castro, historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, a science center in the fields of western Nicaragua honors his legacy in this country to which he was linked by so many historical ties. The Comandante...More

U.S. Govt. suspends private charter flights to Cuba

ABEL GONZALEZ ALAYÓN August 14, 2020

U.S. Govt. suspends private charter flights to Cuba

HAVANA. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Thursday that the U.S. government has suspended private charter flights to Cuba, including those to Havana. According to a statement released today, all charters between the United States and Cuba over which the Department of Transportation exercises jurisdiction will be...More

Taiwan’s potential deployment of US-made missiles, mines easy to counter: Experts

Liu Xuanzun August 14, 2020

Taiwan’s potential deployment of US-made missiles, mines easy to counter: Experts

The island of Taiwan is reportedly in discussions with the US over the purchase of cruise missiles and sea mines, and claimed they will potentially be deployed as coastal defense and amphibious landing deterrence. The intention to purchase these weapons only emphasized Taiwan's outdated war concepts and military...More

Chinese H-6J bomber’s S. China Sea deployment ‘to suppress US provocations’

Liu Xuanzun August 14, 2020

Chinese H-6J bomber’s S. China Sea deployment ‘to suppress US provocations’

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy's newly revealed bomber, the H-6J, was recently deployed on Yongxing Island in the South China Sea for the first time, foreign media reported on Wednesday. The move will enable the PLA to suppress and jam provocative US military activities in the...More

Narrative of ‘New India’: Destruction of Indian Constitution

Sitaram Yechury August 14, 2020

Narrative of ‘New India’: Destruction of Indian Constitution

AS we approach our 73rd Independence Day, a new national narrative is being scripted to bequeath to India’s future. This narrative of a `New India’ suggests that on August 15, 1947, India achieved its independence; on August 5, 2019, with the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A of...More

PLA’s ‘unprecedented drills’ in Taiwan Straits for deterrence, actual combat: observers

GT Staff Reporters August 14, 2020

PLA’s ‘unprecedented drills’ in Taiwan Straits for deterrence, actual combat: observers

Beijing. The Chinese mainland openly warned Taiwan secessionists by conducting massive military drills in the Taiwan Straits on Thursday. Chinese experts said this is a clear and unprecedented deterrence toward secessionists of the island as well as the US, as the Trump administration has increased its links with...More