Left Review Online September 04, 2019
Beijing. China announced guidelines to strengthen the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in rural economic construction through deepening agricultural supply-side structural reform, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Sunday. The Party is expected to play a vital role in consolidating the basic position of the...More
Young, angry, anti-establishment, and violent. How can they be defined? Rioters or heroes? It depends on what they oppose. If they are against Western mainstream society, they are villains. But if they are against non-Western authority, their actions would perfectly fit a pro-democracy narrative, all too often exploited...More
Beijing. International cooperation in smart technologies will continue as no country can do it alone despite the rising trend of trade protectionism around the world, said attendees at the ongoing 2019 Smart China Expo (SCE). Chinese President Xi Jinping said in his congratulation letter to the event that...More
Beijing. China will hold a grand military parade, the largest in two decades, on October 1 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC), and some advanced domestically made weapons will debut. The scale of this year's military parade will exceed...More
Beijing. Chinese President Xi Jinping and visiting Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday witnessed the signing of a series of cooperative agreements, with experts hailing it as signals of bilateral relations remain on a honeymoon with cooperation expanding to non-traditional areas. "At present, the international and regional situations...More
Beijing. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte began his visit to China on Wednesday. Recently, strong opinions on the South China Sea issue inside the Philippines have increased, and the US has been urging the Philippines to take a tougher stance on China. Some in the US and the Philippines...More
Four decades ago, a small fishing village started groundbreaking reform and opening-up policies that changed the fate of China. Today, Shenzhen in South China's Guangdong Province is a technology powerhouse that's being asked once again to lead the country into a new era of high-quality growth. But beyond...More
Beijing. Under the global spotlight of whether the "honeymoon" of China-Philippine ties may come to an end, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte kicks off his fifth official trip to China on Wednesday. Experts reaffirmed Tuesday that such speculations are intended to disrupt bilateral ties, and China-Philippine relations are in...More
Top diplomats of China, Japan and South Korea are scheduled to meet on Wednesday in Beijing as the Tokyo-Seoul trade dispute adds uncertainty to the regional economy. China is unlikely to take sides in the Japan-South Korea trade dispute. East Asia's economic picture has grown increasingly complex, but...More
Kathmandu. Comrade Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda', Chairman of Nepal Communist Party (NCP), emphasizing on the party discipline points that NCP leaders are becoming undisciplined and everyone is making statements without thinking of the consequences. Former Prime Minister Prachanda said that the party had come so far because its...More
"Now Sloppy Steve has been dumped like a dog by almost everyone. Too bad!" This is how US President Donald Trump mocked his fired White House chief strategist Steve Bannon in a tweet on January 6, 2018. It is hard to believe that this "dumped dog" was one...More
Beijing. Fernando González, president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), is no doubt the best person to talk about the relations between Cuba and its old foe, the US. This is because González has another better known identity: a member of the Cuban Five....More
Beijing. Condemnation for violence poured in after Global Times reporter Fu Guohao was illegally seized and brutally assaulted by rioters at the Hong Kong International Airport around midnight Tuesday. Fu Guohao, reporter of Global Times website, was attacked by rioters at the Hong Kong airport while he was...More
Beijing. China-Cuban relationships were established in an unstable world in the 1960s, and after many years, today the two sides are standing together as they once were, in the face of the new challenges of unilateralism and protectionism. During a recent visit by the Cuban Foreign Minister to...More
The highly controversial multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein died on Saturday by suicide in a Manhattan jail. His death, confirmed by the US Department of Justice, has raised many concerns. Epstein was a well-connected financier who managed the assets of clients from the US upper class, moving among elites including...More