The People's Bank of China (PBC), the central bank, is preparing for a digital currency, with various tests proceeding in different regions of China as the country develops more digital currency applications. Sun Guofeng, an official with the PBC, said Tuesday at a regular press conference that the...More

India's overconfidence in its economic strength and its many challenges against Chinese enterprises will hurt itself more in the longer term amid bilateral tensions and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, analysts warned, adding that a tit-for-tat tariff war was unlikely. Such comments came after a report by the Hindustan...More

"Turmoil 2020 means Australia's foreign policy is being cast in a new light," the Australian Financial Review (AFR) said in an article on Friday. The article quoted analyses arguing that Australia is not moving toward an independent foreign policy, but a "new" policy, or a distancing from some...More

The COVID-19 vaccine that countries around the world are racing to acquire may not be able to provide permanent protection, and recipients who recover from the infection may become reinfected even after getting the COVID-19 vaccine, a Hong Kong virologist told the Global Times after a recent study...More

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi is scheduled to visit Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, France and Germany from Tuesday to September 1. It marks China's first high-level overseas visit by officials since COVID-19 was put under control in China. It vividly illustrates the importance of Europe...More

Late Monday night, almost all the interior lights were on at a 50-story skyscraper in the Nanshan district of Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong Province. The headquarters of Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings, has become a vivid display of how the city can grow into a new Silicon Valley...More

The phone call made on Tuesday by chief trade talk negotiators from China and the US and the ensuing announcements showed that there is still enough will from the two sides to implement the phase one trade deal, despite doubts that the deal might be on shaky ground...More

The foreign ministers of the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are expected to sit down for talks with their counterparts from China, Japan and South Korea and the US at the Foreign Ministers' Meetings on East Asia Cooperation in the second half of...More

Lawyers for Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, is asking the B.C. Supreme Court to order the release of more secretly-kept information related to her arrest at Vancouver airport in 2018 - which observers said that would be key for Meng's extradition case and decisive whether...More

Seventy-five years ago, Japan was defeated in World War II and was hence "completely disarmed and demilitarized." Since then, the US has been using Japan's pacifist constitution to control the island nation. The pacifist constitution was originally intended to allow other countries to keep track of Japan and...More

The 3rd China-LAC Foreign Ministers Forum is not due until January of 2021. But in July, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi co-hosted with Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, the pro tempore chair of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), a teleconference with...More

Jiaqu could barely speak any Putonghua, the standard Chinese national language, but he was eager to share with the Global Times reporter his excitement and gratitude for moving to his current home. "I never dreamed that I would one day live in such a nice home," Jiaqu said...More

"If you meet any problems, go find Party members." This is a common saying in Duoerge village in Nagqu, Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. In the arduous fight against poverty, Party members in the village are mobilized to play the leading role and they showed the spirits of...More

The US government's latest crackdown on chip supplies for Huawei Technologies Co sparked widespread backlash from Chinese officials and industry leaders on Tuesday, underscoring the force of mounting opposition against an increasingly erratic US administration whose reckless words and deeds could cause deep disruptions and losses for global...More

The latest figures from a July 30-August 12 Gallup survey of 1,031 US adults show that 41 percent of the polled approve of US President Donald Trump's handling of foreign affairs, which is down from 48 percent in early February. Roughly 57 percent disapprove of the president's handling...More