Left Review Online June 11, 2020
Pyongyang. Kwon Jong Gun, director-general of the Department of U.S. Affairs of the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK, gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA on Thursday over the recent obtrusive moves of the U.S. to interfere in the inter-Korean relations: On June 9, an...More
No matter how hard Uncle Sam tries to paint things over, it's obvious to the world the US has lost its moral high ground. Cartoon/Illustration By: Global TimesMore
A video pointing out the differences between the Hong Kong and US police on how they handled the riots went viral, with many Chinese netizens hailing HK law enforcement for showing restraint during the 2019 riots and condemning US police for being violent and the US government for...More
The prospects of the phase one trade deal have never been more puzzling. Right after media reports said that the Chinese government had told major state-run agricultural companies to halt purchases of US farm goods including soybeans and pork, state-owned companies reportedly purchased three cargoes of US soybeans...More
Chinese and foreign firms are showing increasing enthusiasm toward China's new infrastructure plan as it accelerates the move toward new emphases and is expected to bring new drivers for the economy and help hedge against the fallout of the coronavirus outbreak. Chinese tech giant Tencent recently announced it...More
Mass protests in the US have spread like wildfire in the week since the graphic and gruesome images of the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis went viral. Bystanders begged the police to stop. With little regard for this black man's life, the police didn't stop crushing...More
When the Western media depicts Chinese media coverage of the ongoing social unrest in the US as a "propaganda win" with a mixture of glee for the Western media's double standards on the Hong Kong protests, which has now backfired on its own, few of them are taking...More
The Chinese government will help arrange special flights for its citizens that are willing to fly home but are stuck in India due to the country's nationwide coronavirus lockdown, according to a notice the Chinese embassy in New Delhi published on its website on Monday. The voluntary repatriation...More
Editor's Note: "Sino-American relations are clearly the worst they have been" since former US president Richard Nixon reached out to top Chinese leaders in the early 1970s, said Charles W. Freeman Jr., a former senior US diplomat who has witnessed the establishment and development of China-US diplomatic relations. He...More
US airlines might be taking the most direct and biggest blow from the suspension of flights to China, but other US businesses in a wide range of sectors such as Apple and Qualcomm are also taking a hit. Those companies have become an important driving force in pushing...More
Those who visit the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea often encounter surprising realities. Are the Workers Really Living Here? There are sky-scraping apartment houses on Changjon Street with modern architectural beauty and workers’ dormitories...More
The budget session of the Federal Parliament of Nepal for the upcoming budget for the fiscal year 2077-78 is summoned. It is necessary to discuss the principles of budgets in the parliament as per the constitutional and legal provisions. Expectations are higher as the is government planning to...More
Editor's Note: As East Asia's largest economy, China encounters economic competition from regional powers such as Japan and India. It also faces US hegemonic aggression. These pressures lead to profound questions. How can China balance them to continue its rise? Is Japan or India a bigger threat in the...More
As China's annual "two sessions" will kick off on Thursday, the State Council, the country's cabinet, revealed on Tuesday that all the 38 quantitative targets listed in the 2019 government work report have been achieved. For major economic goals, last year's government work report set a GDP growth...More
Pyongyang. The Fourth Enlarged Meeting of the Seventh Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK). The meeting was guided by supreme leader Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the WPK. The meeting took...More