Kofi Annan, the late UN Secretary-General, often said the world was a "global village." He was right. Our world has shrunk. The recent spread of COVID-19 worldwide, affecting both rich and developing countries, confirms that all 7.5 billion people of the world live in a global village. Wise...More

Beijing. China announced early Wednesday that it would take countermeasures against restrictive measures on Chinese media agencies in the United States, effective immediately. As a standard and common practice in the diplomacy domain, the move is a decisive response to the Trump administration's unwarranted suppression and discriminatory practices...More

As the novel coronavirus pandemic sweeps the globe with experts warning the worst is yet to come, the US has been busy. At first, it was busy peddling the unproven theory that the virus was "made in China," and is now engaged in wrestling with Germany to seek...More

With the COVID-19 outbreak in full swing in the US, President Donald Trump had the temerity to call it "the Chinese Virus" on Twitter on Tuesday. Labeling a virus to reference to a country, region or people contradicts long-held principles of the World Health Organization (WHO). What prompted...More

Beijing. Financial experts in China have called for China's central bank to reduce its benchmark deposit interest rates "as soon as possible" after the US Federal Reserve's surprising 100-basis-point rate cut overnight, as China's economic downturn - worsened by the coronavirus - raises demands for stronger policy stimulus....More

US President Donald Trump using the term "Chinese Virus" to refer to the COVID-19 in his tweet is an act of inability and irresponsibility, as he wants to make Americans to blame China and cover his own administration's terrible response to the predictable outbreak and his failure to...More

Persistent equity sell-offs in the US triggered by panic over the coronavirus outbreak has laid bare deep-seated problems in the US economy and the extremely polarized, volatile political climate in the country, and brought the world's largest economy to the edge of an economic and political crisis with...More

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues to threaten global security, with the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases rising Monday to 113,584, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. China on Monday reported just 19 new infections and 17 new deaths. During an interview with the New York...More

The US State Department announced on March 2 that it would impose a personnel cap on the number of Chinese citizens permitted to work for the US operation of five Chinese official media outlets, cutting the number of employees from 160 to 100. The 60 people must either...More

The novel coronavirus epidemic has exposed the deep-seated bigotry and substandard manner of some American elites. While China has made enormous sacrifices to contain the spread of the epidemic, and when China's successful practice has gained other countries sufficient time to be alerted and prepared, some Americans just...More

Kathmandu. Foreign Affairs Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has remarked the UK, France, and Germany followed the footstep of the USA. This was mentioned in a statement issued by the Spokesperson of the DPRK Ministery of Foreign Affairs on Saturday responding to a "joint...More

Instead of making an all-out effort to fight the coronavirus, some countries in the West have exploited the crisis to attack China's prevention measures, which are proving more than effective. And now that the virus has now gone global, some mainstream Western media have shifted their attacks to...More

Beijing. Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Wuhan, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in the country, on Tuesday for inspecting the epidemic prevention and control work in Central China's Hubei Province and its capital city Wuhan, sending a strong signal to the entire country and the world...More

The inspection tour by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province, has greatly inspired Chinese society. People interpret the visit in their own simple way, and optimism has blended with the atmosphere of spring. The Chinese stock market, contrary to European and US stock markets,...More

Amid the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, over 480 US public health and legal experts jointly signed an open letter to US Vice President Mike Pence and other federal, state and local officials, calling for a "fair and effective COVID-19 response." Chen Zhuo (Chen), an associate professor at the...More