Overall, the US retained its strong, global economic lead in 2019. Despite this, its middle class - a pillar of the American Dream - is falling into near poverty, indicating the country is facing a crisis beneath its superficial boom. The number of Americans living in poverty fell...more

Extradition hearing of Meng Wanzhou, Chinese tech giant Huawei's Chief Financial Officer, is set to begin on January 20 in British Columbia's Supreme Court in Canada. After more than a year since the arrest of Meng shattered China-Canada relations, it is time for Ottawa to reflect on its...more

An Iranian friend of mine asked me what I thought about the killing of Qasem Soleimani, commander of Iran's elite army Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps by a US drone strike in Iraq the day after Soleimani's death. I answered without hesitation - this is an act of state...more

In 2006, North Korea tested a nuclear weapon for the first time. Obviously, one of the major reasons was the fear to ward off threats to its government from the United States that never spared a regime opposed to Washington. Since sanctions have driven Pyongyang to keep testing...more

Beijing. The allegations that China has detained millions of Uyghur people in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region came from unreliable studies and sources backed by US government, based on shoddy methodologies and works of a far-right anti-China and anti-communist researcher, a recently published essay in the Grayzone revealed. "The...more

Mutual trust is the foundation of cooperation, and misunderstanding reduces trust. In complex China-US relations, some Americans' misunderstanding of China has undermined the two countries' mutual trust. Both China and the US are big powers, but they differ in history, culture and social systems. Since China's reform and...more

Kathmandu. Former Bolivian President Evo Morales called on leaders of his Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) to meet next week to choose their candidates, in view of the elections expected to take place next year in that country. Morales, who has been very active since he arrived last week...more

Havana. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Saturday rejected neoliberalism, which impoverishes the countries of Latin America, and repeated his support for the governments of Venezuela and Nicaragua, which are under the hostility of the United States. In his speech at the closing of the 4th session of the...more

Arguably one of the most important Western observers of China, Martin Wolf, associate editor and chief economic commentator of the Financial Times, recently wrote a piece on "How to reform today's rigged capitalism." The issues discussed and solutions provided can be seen as the latest remedies elites offer...more

China leads the world's 5G development, which the US calls a race. Earlier this year, US President Donald Trump said, "The race to 5G is on and America must win." The question is, how? Over the past year, we have seen the US ramp up efforts to squeeze...more

US-North Korea talks have been stalled since early October. As the year-end deadline set by Pyongyang for Washington to soften its approach to stalled denuclearization talks is approaching, we see no hope of quick resumption of negotiations. North Korea and the US have drummed up their rhetoric, and...more

Beijing. Riots erupted in Assam and West Bengal of India amid the controversial amendment to an act. The Citizenship Amendment Act excluded Muslims who came to India from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan to escape religious persecution before December 31, 2014 to get Indian citizenship. The internet in Assam...more

The so-called Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, which proposes to do away with the city's special tariffs status, goes against US economic interests. It is for political reasons that the White House has signed the vaunted bill into a law. The US wants to attack China's...more

Beijing. Due to US obstruction, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTOAB) will likely be unable to function on Wednesday. Normally consisting of seven judges, the WTOAB has been operating with only three judges, the bare minimum, since January 2018, and two of those judges will...more

There are only three weeks left for the year-end deadline set by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for negotiations with the United States to resolve the Korean Peninsula nuclear standoff. If the US cannot offer a plan satisfactory to both sides, North Korea has warned it will take...more