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

Chinese companies are definitely investing much more in India than they were a decade ago, but their hopes of replicating China's business success in India may be less certain. As of December 11, Chinese investment in India reached $8 billion, compared with less than $200 million a decade...more

The Chairman Mao Memorial Hall in Tiananmen Square in Beijing witnessed unusually long lines, with people converging from the whole country to wait outside on Thursday, the 126th anniversary of the late leader's birth. The hall, which normally opens only in the morning, expanded their opening time to...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

Xinjiang, China. Some overseas organizations and media have been hyping China's policy in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region by initiating an online campaign to "find missing Uyghurs in China." They posted online that some Uyghurs are missing after China on December 9 announced the graduation from vocational...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

Editor's Note: Correspondents of Global Times recently interviewed the spokesperson of the People's Government of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, speaking about the ICIJ's organization of multiple foreign media outlets to fabricate and distort reports about Xinjiang. The spokesperson stated that the reports published by the ICIJ and other...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

US House of Representatives giving the nod to the so-called Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act on December 3 shows that the US is once again using human rights as a tool to interfere in other countries' domestic affairs and is violating international law as well as norms of...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

In the recently held Central Secretariat meeting of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP), the goal of communism has been finally endorsed by the leaders and is likely to be incorporated in the Party statue. Since the merger of the CPN-UML led by PM Kadga Prasad Sharma Oli...more

Is the Indian economy heading for a hard landing? The answer to the question, to some extent, will determine the trend of the broad Asian economy in the coming year. China, India and Japan together generate a considerable part of Asia's economic activity. Although Japan's economy expanded in...more