Left Review Online September 15, 2021
Editor's Note: "The West's size and comparative skills are not what they used to be 100 years ago. Asian nations, and particularly China, are out there for cooperation projects," said Professor Augusto Soto (Soto) of ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. Soto is also the director of the "Dialogue...More
China's newly revised Maritime Traffic Safety Law (MTSL) took effect on September 1. Some of the new amendments have led to heated discussion in the West, especially the article that five types of foreign ships must report their detailed information upon their visits to Chinese territorial waters. The...More
US climate envoy John Kerry is set to kick off his second visit to China inside five months under China's invitation, at a time when the bilateral relationship has hit a nadir not seen in decades. China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment announced on Tuesday that Kerry would...More
The newly developed and recently unveiled prototype miniature helicopter drone, a possible means to support China's Mars missions, is designed to become a navigator for the Mars rover. It will greatly boost the latter's ability to explore valuable targets on the surface of the Red Planet, the project...More
Chinese Vice Premier Liu He on Monday vowed unchanged and firm support to the country's private sector, a sign from the top of reassurance to businesses, clarified misinterpretations, and also fought back at foreign smearing of China's tightened regulatory measures over a range of sectors. Rather than calling...More
Amid the consensus among worldwide scientists that the second phase of the study on coronavirus origins should be carried out in multiple places, officials and experts from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) suggested that the WHO should take cold chain as a key...More
Editor's note: Three months after US President Joe Biden requested a more in-depth review of the origins of novel coronavirus, the US intelligence community released an unclassified report, which showed that the community was split on the origins and offered no conclusive answers. During the past three months,...More
Editor's Note: On July 1, China declared that it has reached its first centennial development goal - building a moderately prosperous society, or xiaokang, in all respects and is marching in confident strides toward the second centennial goal of building the nation into a great modern socialist country. To...More
As Taliban take steps to stabilize the situation and pursue international recognition, Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and private firms are employing different investment strategies in the war-torn country, with the former exercising extreme caution in carrying out new projects and the latter eager to tap into a market...More
Hua Chunying, spokesperson for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on Friday condemned US coercion of China's neighboring countries with vaccines to join the COVID-19 origins smear campaign as "immoral, irresponsible and reprehensible," referring to an exclusive report by the Global Times revealing the US trick. The US has...More
The Afghan Taliban have successfully returned to Kabul and are ready to set up a new government while the hasty US retreat, which had caused deaths to locals, makes the end of the 20-year-long war look increasingly embarrassing to the US. The UN Security Council held an emergency...More
As the position of US ambassador to China remains vacant after over 10 months, a rare occurrence since the two countries established diplomatic ties, Chinese experts on US affairs believe that the Biden administration wants to prioritize direct talks with China through higher-level officials because the role of...More
The US has publicly expressed concern that the People's Republic of China (PRC) is modernizing its defensive strategic weapons capabilities. All the while, it is known in the public domain that Washington is always ready with an immeasurably more powerful arsenal of nuclear weapons. Since our allegedly moral...More
After issuing a warning to US firms over the "risks" of doing business in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), the US government has taken a step further and sought to pressure businesses to leave the city, in a fresh attempt to sow chaos in the city...More
Editor's Note: As a bipartisan "anti-China" consensus seems to become increasingly solid in the US and the US' foreign policy is showing more recklessness, how will the US' China policy develop in the future? How can the impasse of China-US relations be broken and move the ties forward?...More