The Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council announced on Monday China will implement agreed tariff rates under the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) for certain imports from the Philippines starting on June 2, when the trade pact is set to take effect in the Philippines after the...more

Editor's Note: The Fukushima Prefecture in northeastern Japan is known as "the island of happiness," which embodies people's longing for a better life. Summer began in Fukushima in early May when locals normally look forward to intimate contact with the sea. However, despite strong opposition at home and...more

"Dear Taiwan, On Tuesday a woman will travel more than 6,000 miles from London to Taipei to visit you. Her name is Liz Truss, and you shouldn't let her in: draw the curtains or hide behind the furniture when she knocks. Pretend you are not at home. She...more

China is framed in the West as a "revisionist power" intent on overthrowing the "rules-based international order" and replacing it with something else - "China's world order." This way of interpreting the issue is misleading. What's happening isn't a contest between separate, ideologically articulated conceptions of international order....more

Geopolitics can offer us simple and, at the same time, correct answers to the most complex questions. China and Russia are equally interested in the stability of Central Asia simply because they are directly neighboring most of the states located in this part of Eurasia. It is as...more

Recently, the General Administration of Customs China (GACC) agreed to add the port of Vladivostok in Russia as a transit port for domestic transportation of goods in Jilin Province, which has attracted attention and interpretations from both domestic and international public opinion from different perspectives. This is certainly...more

China strongly condemned and firmly opposed the Canadian side declaring a Chinese diplomat as "persona non grata" expelling the diplomat on Monday, which serious violates international law and basic principles of international relations, as well as relevant bilateral agreements between China and Canada, the Chinese Embassy in Canada...more

After the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday declared an end to COVID-19 as a global public health emergency, many Chinese medical experts expressed optimism for further social and economic recovery, while stressing a necessity for long-term monitoring of the virus in the new stage of epidemic prevention....more

China's central government has convened three important meetings within two weeks to discuss and lay out major tasks related to economic and social development, at a time when the nation's economy has rode on the fast track of recovery, experts said. The meetings are follow-ups of the Central...more

Arab League member states have agreed to reinstate Syria's membership after its suspension 12 years ago, said a statement the bloc issued after a meeting on Sunday, which experts see as a "landmark event" amid a series of progressive steps toward reconciliation and the waning influence of the...more

While Chinese Vice President Han Zheng is visiting Portugal and the Netherlands from Sunday to May 12, China on Monday announced the visit of State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang to Germany, France and Norway from Monday to May 12. The ongoing visits showed China and the...more

The upcoming China-Central Asia Summit -- the first of its kind, scheduled to be held in Xi'an next week, will witness ties between China and the five Central Asian countries elevated to a new high. Fruitful, comprehensive results are expected to be realized in multiple areas, be it...more

Editor's Note: As China-US tensions have boiled over the island of Taiwan and the Ukraine crisis, Southeast Asia has kept proactive diplomacy. Global Times (GT) reporters Wang Wenwen and Bai Yunyi talked to Mahathir bin Mohamad (Mahathir), former prime minister of Malaysia, about his views on China-US relations...more

Let me begin with a personal note: I have at long last been able to return to Beijing from Australia. With a view from afar, you can see things in a different light, and this applies in particular to the talk in Australia of a "war with China."...more

According to media reports, national security advisors from the US, India, Saudi Arabia and the UAE met in Saudi Arabia on Sunday to discuss a US proposal to link the Middle Eastern nations through a network of railway lines and connect the region to South Asia via sea...more