I had an interesting conversation with a senior government official in China when I was writing my first book, Powerful, Different, Equal: Overcoming the Misconceptions and Differences between China and the US. I made the observation that most people think of China as not being a democracy, whereas...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

China's climate envoy Xie Zhenhua emphasized the urgent need for international cooperation to enhance methane control in developing countries and urged global unity and action during the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) on Saturday, together with US Special Presidential...More

The 2023 Understanding China Conference (Guangzhou), which concluded on Sunday, has become a major platform to address a significant "understanding deficit" between different countries and civilizations and to help fostering mutual trust. As the key to understanding China is understanding Chinese modernization, which is different from Western modernization,...More

Editor's Note: More than 150 officials, political party leaders and scholars from 18 countries in Southeast and South Asia had an open dialogue in the city of Kunming in Southwest China's border province of Yunnan recently. They affirmed the achievements the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has...More

It seems that US scrutiny of imports from Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is still haunting global industry chains. The development adds to the urgency for China to consolidate and expand Xinjiang's manufacturing presence in global production chains. Electronic products from Malaysia and Vietnam are facing closer...More

This year's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Informal Dialogue, hosted by the US, has received a relatively unanimous positive assessment from APEC economies and the broader international community. This is not easy. Many people were previously concerned that the US might stir up division and advocate its...More

San Francisco is garnering growing attention this November as Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel there from November 14 to 17 for a China-US summit and the 30th APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting at the invitation of the US. Expectations around the globe toward this meeting have been high,...More

Editor's Note: Chinese people believe that letters are as valuable as gold. For thousands of years, letters, across mountains and oceans, have been delivering the writers' sentiments, friendship, and expectations. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has managed to find time...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

The Biden administration has doubled down on its persistent drive to "decouple" from China and hobble China's high-tech advance, as a US Congressional committee is reportedly targeting California-based venture capital investor Sequoia Capital as part of the government's efforts to block its investment into high-tech sectors in China....More

The US' "China Military Power report," like its previous editions, ignores the facts and is filled with bias, spreading the "China threat" theory which only serves as an excuse to maintain its military hegemony, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Friday, in response to a Pentagon report...More

Despite a recent climate of detente between China and the US, a US report by a congressionally mandated panel hyped "threats" from China and Russia, urging Washington to prepare for possible simultaneous wars with Moscow and Beijing and enhance its already formidable nuclear arsenal. Analysts said Friday that...More

China is rolling out new policies to promote high-quality development of computing power technology on Monday, aided with strengthened top-level design and infrastructure build-up to give the country an edge in complex computations and data processing tasks. Six government agencies including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology...More

The recent re-emergence of the old tune of attacking China's normal water resources development and utilization has once again been used by the US and the secessionist Dalai Lama clique to smear China. Media reported that during the recently concluded World Water Week Conference in Stockholm, the US...More