GT staff reporters May 2, 2021
Chinese exporters of personal protective equipment (PPE) are seeing surging demand from India that has their factories working around the clock, as the South Asian country reels from shortages of medical oxygen and other epidemic-related devices amid a devastating second wave of the coronavirus. However, even as they...more
Japan is consuming its reputation as an economic and cultural powerhouse it has strived hard to achieve since the end of World War II, and its efforts to become a political major power and normal country will be questioned strongly by the international community, especially by neighboring countries,...more
Pakistan has offered to provide relief support, including ventilators, to India to help fight the deadly wave of COVID-19, according to Indian media reports. In a statement on Saturday, Islamabad said the two countries can explore possible ways to further co-operation to mitigate the challenges posed by the...more
The Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) kicked off in South China's Hainan Province on Sunday, at a critical time when much of the world remains under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, while Asian economies led by China are seeing both robust recovery and rising external risks posed...more
After Japan's decision to discharge radioactive wastewater into the sea sparked widespread concerns from Chinese consumers over seafood safety, the stocks of aquaculture and wastewater treatment rose on Chinese stock markets on Tuesday morning. The plate of aquaculture - the breeding, rearing, and harvesting of fish, shellfish, algae...more
As the global economy enters a critical point of post-pandemic recovery, Malaysia has shown intention to speed up its 5G network construction, which is expected to greatly help the country win advantages in the market, but the move is also conducive for the whole regional economy in post-COVID...more
President Kim Il Sung is among the students taking part in the construction of Pyongyang in June 1957. On the Day of the Sun, the Korean people feel deep yearning for President Kim Il Sung who always found himself among them and held them in high esteem. His...more
The Japanese government "is poised to" release polluted water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, according to Kyodo News. Such an extremely irresponsible act has been strongly criticized by China and other neighboring countries of Japan. However, most major Western media outlets have remained...more
President Kim Il Sung regarded children as the kings or queens of the country, loved them fervently and made them the happiest in the world. This has not been found yet in any other country. The Pyongyang Students and Children’s Palace is the epitome of his love for...more
The situation around the Taiwan Straits has kept escalating. Within the US strategic circle, the debate of whether the US should abandon its decades-long policy of "strategic ambiguity" is going on. According to the US media, some advisors are calling for the US to make a clearer commitment...more
Multiple branches of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) are continuing large-scale military exercises near the island of Taiwan, at a time when Taiwan secessionists insisted on making provocative statements and holding drills, and the US sent a warship through the Taiwan Straits on Wednesday and voiced support...more
With bilateral relations at a new crossroad, a message sent by Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi to his Japanese counterpart was a "timely reminder" for Tokyo to stop heading in the wrong direction and pull ties to the right track, Chinese observers said. China hopes...more
A view in New Delhi's strategic circle argues that China benefited greatly from its engagement with the US from 1972 to around the year 2000, and thus, India should learn from China to use the US chariot to achieve its own development. There is no problem at all...more
China is ready to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with other countries on poverty reduction, support international poverty reduction, and make a greater contribution to building a global community of shared future, free from poverty and blessed with common prosperity, according to a white paper on poverty reduction released...more
Pyongyang. The 6th Conference of Cell Secretaries of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), which is of great significance in the implementation of the decisions of the historic 8th Congress of the WPK and the organizational and ideological strengthening of the whole Party, closed on April 8 after...more