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US continues dirty tricks by accusing China of stealing vaccine research

Shen Yi May 16, 2020

US continues dirty tricks by accusing China of stealing vaccine research

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security warned that Chinese hackers were attempting to steal novel coronavirus data on treatments and vaccines from the US, the Voice of America (VOA) reported on Wednesday. "The two organizations gave no examples to support the allegation,"...More

Trump’s lateness to mandate masks escalate the US crisis

Xin Qiang May 15, 2020

Trump’s lateness to mandate masks escalate the US crisis

The White House on Monday ordered all West Wing staff to wear masks at work, except when they are sitting at their own desks, according to New York Times. US President Donald Trump has previously politicized masks, even suggesting to the public at one point they weren't necessary....More

An elaboration of my advocacy for why China needs more nuclear deterrence

Hu Xijin May 15, 2020

An elaboration of my advocacy for why China needs more nuclear deterrence

I welcome the criticism of my call for China to expand the number of its nuclear warheads. Here is my response to those criticisms. First, to advocate that China increase the number of nuclear weapons is itself anti-peace. Some people holding this view are idealistic and have a...More

China-US ties on the brink of a complete breakdown: Roach

Stephen S. Roach May 14, 2020

China-US ties on the brink of a complete breakdown: Roach

[In his article "The end of the US-China relationship," Stephen S. Roach, a faculty member at Yale University and former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, describes new shifts in the China-US relationship amid the COVID-19 pandemic. He wrote, "After 48 years of painstaking progress, a major rupture of...More

Stop the corporate hijack of the 2021 World Food Systems Summit

Left Review Online May 13, 2020

Stop the corporate hijack of the 2021 World Food Systems Summit

We, civil society organizations, grassroots groups and advocates for the welfare of marginalized sectors, call for the revocation of the 2019 Strategic Partnership between the United Nations (UN) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) and its implications for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We express our grave...More

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un Sends Greetings to Russian President Putin

Left Review Online May 12, 2020

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un Sends Greetings to Russian President Putin

Kathmandu. Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Saturday sent a message of greeting to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of the Russian Federation on May 9, 2020. In his message, Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un extended his...More

New Pyongyang General Hospital for the people-oriented Public Health Service – Kim Jong Un

Left Review Online May 12, 2020

New Pyongyang General Hospital for the people-oriented Public Health Service – Kim Jong Un

Comrades, The Fifth Plenary Meeting of the Seventh Central Committee and the enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, both held recently, made an analysis of the situations facing our revolution and put forward correct fighting modes, tasks and...More

Unseating China from global supply chains ‘pie in the sky’

Left Review Online May 12, 2020

Unseating China from global supply chains ‘pie in the sky’

The Trump administration's intent to unseat China as the mainstay of global supply chains may be just pie in the sky, observers said, noting that China ought to open its economy even further while driving indigenous innovation to propel growth. The Trump administration is pushing to rip global...More

Holiday economy rebounds in China

Wang Cong May 11, 2020

Holiday economy rebounds in China

China on Tuesday marked a milestone in its efforts to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, as over 100 million tourists flocked to popular attraction sites across the country during the just-concluded May Day holiday and spent billions of dollars, all while averting a much-feared resurgence of COVID-19 cases....More

Birth of coronavirus still a mystery, blame game needs to be averted

Wen Sheng May 11, 2020

Birth of coronavirus still a mystery, blame game needs to be averted

The birth of the lethal COVID-19 remains a mystery, as French virologists have determined a male patient near Paris who was diagnosed with pneumonia on December 27, and actually was infected with the novel coronavirus. This is a stunning scientific find. The Frenchman, in his 50s who has...More

US messes up manipulation of virus origin: Chinese Media

Left Review Online May 11, 2020

US messes up manipulation of virus origin: Chinese Media

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo proclaimed that "enormous evidence" shows the COVID-19 outbreak began in a laboratory in Wuhan, raising doubts immediately with his claim as it breaks with common recognition of global scientists. The World Health Organization said there were some 15,000 full genome sequences of...More

Increasing housing turnover could lift Chinese economy

Wang Bozun May 11, 2020

Increasing housing turnover could lift Chinese economy

With rising turnover, housing sector will expedite China's economy recovery as the COVID-19 epidemic has obviously eased, industry experts and insiders told the Global Times on Tuesday. Citing data from the Beijing Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the China Securities Journal (CSJ) reported that 11,973 apartments...More

COVID-19 spread in emerging markets brings in new round of shocks to global economy

Left Review Online May 11, 2020

COVID-19 spread in emerging markets brings in new round of shocks to global economy

As the coronavirus pandemic is seeing an accelerating situation in emerging markets, the third round of hits to the global economy is shaping up and emerging market economies will encounter tougher challenges. Although the spread of the COVID-19 has seen flattened curves in Europe and the US, with...More

RCEP may be signed by year-end, probably without India: Experts

Yang Kunyi May 11, 2020

RCEP may be signed by year-end, probably without India: Experts

The downward pressure posed by COVID-19 on the member countries of the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), as well as China's relatively early economic recovery, may encourage progress on regional economic cooperation and lead to an agreement being signed by year-end, according to experts, but the process...More

Fundamentalist myopia drives US campaign against China

Li Qingqing May 10, 2020

Fundamentalist myopia drives US campaign against China

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been groundlessly attacking China. His point of view reflects many US politicians' hatred toward China and the Communist Party of China (CPC). The US is a country deeply influenced by Christianity. Behind such hatred, there is an extreme religious nationalism or...More