James Smith March 17, 2024
The presence of a Volkswagen manufacturing site in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has long been a target for China hawks who aim to undermine Germany's trade and investment ties with Beijing. The region has faced frequent attacks from US-sponsored "scholarship" and studies, particularly from anti-Communist fundamentalist, Adrian...More
Editor's Note: China's widely watched annual "two sessions" kicked off on Monday this year. The "two sessions" refers to the annual sessions of National People's Congress (NPC) and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), which are known as the country's top legislature and...More
China has rolled out an ethical guideline for brain-computer interfaces (BCI) aiming to better guide the compliant development of BCI research and prevent ethical risks in the process of research and technological applications. The released guideline by the Ministry of Science and Technology comes after Tesla CEO Elon...More
As 2024 Spring Festival approaches, a number of cities across the country have held exhibitions and fairs for the upcoming shopping spree, attracting numerous consumers and merchants from home and abroad to jointly celebrate one of the most important holidays in the country. "This is my first time...More
The US has shown a biased approach to dealing with the Palestine-Israel conflict, and its failure to address the symptoms of the Red Sea crisis led to the current stalemate in the region. Against this backdrop, it wants to prove its leadership to the world, but it can...More
China's economic growth rate is expected to reach around 5 percent in 2024, reversing a continuous trend of decline in GDP growth seen since 2009, Li Daokui, director of Tsinghua University's Academic Center for Chinese Economic Practice and Thinking, told the Global Times on Saturday. "Two highlights for...More
The central political and legal work central conference convened from Saturday to Sunday revealed that since last August, the number of telecommunications fraud cases nationwide has decreased by 28.6 percent compared with the previous year. According to the central conference on judicial, procuratorial and public security work held...More
When the tragic news of Dr. Henry Kissinger's death came, I was very sad, but not shocked. More than 20 hours before, I had heard that his condition was getting critical. On October 11, I was invited to visit Dr. Kissinger in his office in New York. He...More
During a seminar held by the China Society for Human Rights Studies on Monday to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the society's president Padma Choling highlighted China's role as a contributor, advocator and practitioner of the declaration over the years. While some...More
Beijing's taxi drivers are a distinguished part of the capital city's rich tapestry. They may come from the working class, but once inside their cabs, the Shifu - a respectful term used to address workers meaning "master" in Putonghua - are ready to share their views on current...More
The first China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE) will kick off on Tuesday, gathering a number of Fortune Global 500 companies. The supply chain-themed expo is a timely response to the urgent needs of China and the world, aiming to promote cooperation in single fields such as trade...More
The China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has attracted a great deal of attention recently, particularly with the Third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation having taken place in Beijing last month. Since it was announced a decade ago, the BRI has already become the world's largest...More
A group of scholars, musicians, and writers from Okinawa on Monday visited the Ryukyu Kingdom cemetery located in Tongzhou district in eastern Beijing to pay their respects, marking the first visit by a civilian group from Okinawa to the graveyard since Okinawan Governor Denny Tamaki's visit in July...More
Editor's Note: With the APEC leaders' meeting just around the corner, increasing high-level interactions between China and the US signal that the US wants its relations with China to stabilize and even improve. Even if there's a new balloon incident, bilateral ties will not be blown off course...More
Green development truly matters, said Zafar Uddin Mahmood, former special assistant to the prime minister of Pakistan, adding that "Thanks to China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI),significant changes have driven Pakistan's green transformation, including the solar and wind power facilities from scratch." Mahmood was interviewed by Global Times...More