China and EU Tuesday convened one of their most important meetings of the year, steering the vessel of bilateral economic ties toward a reassuring recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The two major economies joined hands despite a US-led rift on multiple fronts that tends to baselessly portray China...More

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper on Monday and Tuesday met Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne and Defense Minister Linda Reynolds. They co-hosted the 2020 Australia-US Ministerial (AUSMIN) consultations in Washington DC. When tensions between China and the US have been escalating,...More

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday delivered an address on China in which he called to discontinue "blind engagement" with China. He said the free world must change China, or "China will surely change us." Washington's repeated hardline stance against Beijing derives from the Trump administration's...More

It wasn't so long ago that TikTok was a harmless, if addictive, video-sharing phone application popular with nearly 1 billion users around the world, including more than 160 million in the US alone. And yet, seemingly overnight, it has now become a "national security threat" to the US,...More

China's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are bouncing back from the coronavirus, according to a survey Standard Chartered sent to the Global Times on Tuesday. The survey of hundreds of SMEs across China suggests that SMEs' business activity continued to improve in July despite severe flooding in central...More

Editor's Note: The Three Gorges Dam, which is China's largest water project, has played a key role in water adjustment and energy generation on the Yangtze River. But even since before it was built in 1994, the project has always been under suspicion and criticism from overseas with some...More

Chinese President Xi Jinping chaired a meeting with entrepreneurs in the country on Tuesday, urging efforts to stimulate the vitality of market entities, promoting entrepreneurship, and of "doing everything possible" to protect market players under unprecedented pressure caused by the pandemic. According to a report from CCTV, Xi...More

The US has recently ramped up its engagement with its European allies in an attempt to rally them to confront China. After US National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien's three-day visit to Europe, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo paid a flying visit to the UK and Denmark from...More

China's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday strongly condemned the US for asking China to close its Consulate General in Houston, a reckless and dangerous move which analysts said will further flare-up tensions between the two largest economies in the world. On Tuesday local time, the US abruptly asked China...More

Driven by changes in international and regional affairs, the "Quad" mechanism of the US, India, Japan, and Australia has attracted much attention from all parties, and has taken on new courses of actions. Following the signing of the Australia-India Mutual Logistics Support Arrangement in June, New Delhi announced...More

Editor's Note: China-US ties, one of the most important bilateral relationships in the world, are at their lowest point since the normalization of relations in 1979 when the world is battered by a pandemic and economic recession. How will the increased tension between the world's two largest economies develop?...More

It is normal juridical activities for local authorities to transfer prisoners, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region said in an exclusive response to the Global Times, commenting on a video clip that has been spreading on overseas social media, which was hyped by Western media as "evidence" of...More

China successfully launched its first Mars probe, named Tianwen-1, via a Long March-5 Y4 carrier rocket from Wenchang Space Launch Center in South China’s Hainan Province into planned orbit on Thursday. The move heralds a new era in China’s deep-space exploration, which has steadily progressed beyond moon probes...More

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Operations have begun at 5,000 semiconductor test production lines with a total investment of 10 billion yuan ($1.42 billion) in Horgos, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Experts believe these facilities will create more opportunities to boost the regional advancement of the semiconductor sector. The Horgos Sanyou Fuxin...More