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West fails to understand China’s democracy

Li Junru December 26, 2019

West fails to understand China’s democracy

Mutual trust is the foundation of cooperation, and misunderstanding reduces trust. In complex China-US relations, some Americans' misunderstanding of China has undermined the two countries' mutual trust. Both China and the US are big powers, but they differ in history, culture and social systems. Since China's reform and...More

Allegedly ‘missing’ Uyghurs found living normally – Exclusive Report

Shan Jie & Zhao Juecheng December 26, 2019

Allegedly ‘missing’ Uyghurs found living normally – Exclusive Report

Xinjiang, China. Some overseas organizations and media have been hyping China's policy in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region by initiating an online campaign to "find missing Uyghurs in China." They posted online that some Uyghurs are missing after China on December 9 announced the graduation from vocational...More

Evo Morales calls on MAS leaders to define candidates

Left Review Online December 22, 2019

Evo Morales calls on MAS leaders to define candidates

Kathmandu. Former Bolivian President Evo Morales called on leaders of his Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) to meet next week to choose their candidates, in view of the elections expected to take place next year in that country. Morales, who has been very active since he arrived last week...More

Cuban President Canel stands with Venezuela, rejects neoliberalism

Left Review Online December 21, 2019

Cuban President Canel stands with Venezuela, rejects neoliberalism

Havana. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Saturday rejected neoliberalism, which impoverishes the countries of Latin America, and repeated his support for the governments of Venezuela and Nicaragua, which are under the hostility of the United States. In his speech at the closing of the 4th session of the...More

Listening to the call to save capitalism

Wu Bo December 20, 2019

Listening to the call to save capitalism

Arguably one of the most important Western observers of China, Martin Wolf, associate editor and chief economic commentator of the Financial Times, recently wrote a piece on "How to reform today's rigged capitalism." The issues discussed and solutions provided can be seen as the latest remedies elites offer...More

US needs open-mindedness in 5G race with China

Wang Wenwen December 18, 2019

US needs open-mindedness in 5G race with China

China leads the world's 5G development, which the US calls a race. Earlier this year, US President Donald Trump said, "The race to 5G is on and America must win." The question is, how? Over the past year, we have seen the US ramp up efforts to squeeze...More

Will Kim-Trump personal ties help Korean Peninsula flare-up?

Cheng Xiaohe December 18, 2019

Will Kim-Trump personal ties help Korean Peninsula flare-up?

US-North Korea talks have been stalled since early October. As the year-end deadline set by Pyongyang for Washington to soften its approach to stalled denuclearization talks is approaching, we see no hope of quick resumption of negotiations. North Korea and the US have drummed up their rhetoric, and...More

Xinjiang spokesperson dismisses Western reports – GT Exclusive

Left Review Online December 17, 2019

Xinjiang spokesperson dismisses Western reports – GT Exclusive

Editor's Note: Correspondents of Global Times recently interviewed the spokesperson of the People's Government of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, speaking about the ICIJ's organization of multiple foreign media outlets to fabricate and distort reports about Xinjiang. The spokesperson stated that the reports published by the ICIJ and other...More

India, China treated differently by West on ethnic issue

Left Review Online December 17, 2019

India, China treated differently by West on ethnic issue

Beijing. Riots erupted in Assam and West Bengal of India amid the controversial amendment to an act. The Citizenship Amendment Act excluded Muslims who came to India from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan to escape religious persecution before December 31, 2014 to get Indian citizenship. The internet in Assam...More

US conservatives’ attempts to tarnish China’s image doomed to fail

Fan Peng December 16, 2019

US conservatives’ attempts to tarnish China’s image doomed to fail

The so-called Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, which proposes to do away with the city's special tariffs status, goes against US economic interests. It is for political reasons that the White House has signed the vaunted bill into a law. The US wants to attack China's...More

China’s approach in Xinjiang best answers Western criticism

Huang Bin December 15, 2019

China’s approach in Xinjiang best answers Western criticism

US House of Representatives giving the nod to the so-called Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act on December 3 shows that the US is once again using human rights as a tool to interfere in other countries' domestic affairs and is violating international law as well as norms of...More

US disgraceful to undermine WTO

Left Review Online December 15, 2019

US disgraceful to undermine WTO

Beijing. Due to US obstruction, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTOAB) will likely be unable to function on Wednesday. Normally consisting of seven judges, the WTOAB has been operating with only three judges, the bare minimum, since January 2018, and two of those judges will...More

Nepal’s Development Rests on NCP Defining the Socialist Path

Dr. Geeta Kochhar Jaiswal December 15, 2019

Nepal’s Development Rests on NCP Defining the Socialist Path

In the recently held Central Secretariat meeting of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP), the goal of communism has been finally endorsed by the leaders and is likely to be incorporated in the Party statue. Since the merger of the CPN-UML led by PM Kadga Prasad Sharma Oli...More

Asia’s 2020 outlook depends on China and India

Left Review Online December 14, 2019

Asia’s 2020 outlook depends on China and India

Is the Indian economy heading for a hard landing? The answer to the question, to some extent, will determine the trend of the broad Asian economy in the coming year. China, India and Japan together generate a considerable part of Asia's economic activity. Although Japan's economy expanded in...More

Action needed as North Korea deadline looms

Zhan Debin December 13, 2019

Action needed as North Korea deadline looms

There are only three weeks left for the year-end deadline set by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for negotiations with the United States to resolve the Korean Peninsula nuclear standoff. If the US cannot offer a plan satisfactory to both sides, North Korea has warned it will take...More