Beijing. Chinese President Xi Jinping's upcoming visit to Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan will push China's bilateral ties with the two Central Asian countries to a new level and will enhance mutual trust to better maintain regional stability against the backdrop of new changes on counterterrorism, analysts said. Xi will...more

The Anglo-Nepalese War (1814-16), which Nepal lost, resulted in large-scale land cessions in the south of Nepal to the British. It was after occupying India that the UK gradually expanded its ambitions to Nepal, the mountainous kingdom in the Himalayas. The UK's greater strategic goal was to pave...more

It gives me great pleasure to attend the 18th Shangri-la Dialogue. I would like to thank Dr. John Chipman for inviting me here and thank the Singapore government, the Ministry of Defense in particular, for the warm hospitality. I would also like to congratulate His Excellency Prime Minister...more

Beijing. China's State Council Information Office on Sunday issued a white paper titled China's Position on the China-US Economic and Trade Consultations, providing a comprehensive picture of trade talks with US and revealing how the US threw cold water on attempts at consensus, and went back on its...more

The Chinese people are so confused: What on earth does the US want with China? Does it want fair trade or does the US refuse to accept China's development and seek to break the Chinese economy as its ultimate goal? This is a major issue. For the sake...more

US tech firms, including Google, Intel and Qualcomm and Xilinx have reportedly cut off their supply deals with Huawei. There is no doubt that the Chinese tech giant is under pressure, but it has shown a strong will to resist the pressure, rather than throwing in the towel....more

Beijing. The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee recently released "comprehensive and detailed" regulations over the education and management of all Party members, including digital administration, management of Party membership, and management and education of mobile Party members. The regulations state that the Party membership of those...more

Beijing. Chinese President Xi Jinping said that "we are on a new Long March now" during his inspection tour of Jiangxi Province this week and encouraged people to gain strength from the spirit of the Long March to overcome difficulties and obstacles, China's state media outlets reported on...more

Beijing. Voluntary confessions from officials suspected of violations prove the deterrent strength of China's anti-corruption system, observers said, after another official from Central China's Hunan Province turned himself in on Monday, a few days after the confession of the former head of China's securities watchdog. Tang Qilin, former deputy...more

Led by the Communist Party of China (CPC), China realized rapid growth as its political system came under the spotlight of other countries. View from abroad, especially those of the West, have in turn affected many Chinese people. So I'd like to share some of my views about...more

White House Chief Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow said Sunday that both the US and China will suffer when questioned about who would pay the tariffs imposed by the US on Chinese imports in an interview on Fox News. Although he also argued that the effect on the US...more

The trade talks will continue between China and the US, but they are full of uncertainty. Clearly China's development, prosperity and entire destiny cannot depend on US goodwill. Growing stronger is the chief ingredient for China to defuse strategic pressures from the US and to safeguard the strategic...more

Beijing. Beijing Daxing International Airport, a new mega-airport in northern China, witnessed four test flights on Monday morning, a milestone before the airport begins operations at the end of September. The successful tests show airport authorities have moved their focus from infrastructure to flying and upon completion the...more

Beijing. Chinese President Xi Jinping refuted the clash of civilizations theory and warned that it was "foolish to believe that one's race and civilization are superior to others, and it is disastrous to willfully reshape or even replace other civilizations." Xi delivered a keynote speech at the opening...more

Beijing. An exhibit featuring 451 cultural relics from 47 Asian countries and Greece and Egypt opened on Monday at Beijing's National Museum of China ahead of the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations (CDAC), which organizers said aims to highlight the time-enduring communication and "harmony in diversity" of...more