Yang Sheng and Zhang Changyue October 27, 2022
The just-concluded 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) elaborated on Chinese modernization, which offers a path for other countries to seek inspiration, senior Party officials at a Monday press conference reiterated that China will not export its model to other countries, nor will it...more
Editor's Note: China had an epic decade since 2012. Particularly in the last five years, which are truly momentous, extraordinary, the country has successfully dealt with major challenges including turbulent developments in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the COVID-19 epidemic. The 20th National Congress of the Communist...more
Editor's Note: The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 is kicking off in Doha within one month. This is the first World Cup held in Asia after the previous event held in South Korea and Japan 20 years ago, as well as another top international sporting event after the...more
Since 2012, there has been a succession of new thoughts and proposals emanating from Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, and the CPC leadership. It has been a highly fertile and thought-provoking period. In rough chronological order it has included the...more
The world's largest coal chemical project under construction successfully kicked off a demonstration project in Yulin, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, with polyester grade ethylene glycol products rolling off production lines. The project is expected to lower the country's imports of related products and improve the quality of high-end...more
Editor's Note: The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) opened on October 16, after China had accomplished its first centenary goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects by 2021. During the opening session, Xi Jinping, for the first time, outlined the...more
Editor's Note: Since the 18th CPC National Congress when China entered a new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the CPC had committed to a people-centered development philosophy, and made it the immutable aim of all its work to deliver a better life for the people over the...more
Chinese people believe that letters are as valuable as gold. For thousands of years, letters, across mountains and oceans, have been delivering the writers' sentiments, friendship, and expectations. During the past decade, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese president,...more
Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, who is currently on an Australia visit, emphasized one point on Monday - India's national interests - in response to a question about India-Russia relations. At a press conference with Australian foreign minister Penny Wong, when asked whether India is rethinking its...more
When British gentlemen desperately badmouthed China's use of technology, losing their dignity and revealing their true hooligan nature, it's perhaps the most entertaining episode on today's international stage. Jeremy Fleming, head of Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), UK's electronic spy agency, on Tuesday accused China of trying to "rewrite...more
This month marks the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which was the closest that the world ever came to a nuclear war. The US and the Soviet Union faced off over Cuba, where the latter had secretly deployed nuclear weapons in response to Washington earlier deploying...more
Editor's Note: Upon the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic ties between China and Japan, Chinese Ambassador to Japan Kong Xuanyou (Kong) said that the last 50 years, although only a short fragment of the 2,000-year-long history of the two countries' interaction, is undoubtedly a period when...more
Editor's Note: The Biden administration has ratcheted up decoupling with China despite the fact that the move goes against market principles and causes losses for the US itself. Can the US achieve this goal? Can economies such as India and Southeast Asia replace the Chinese market? Global Times...more
Over 3,600 companies from 32 countries and regions attended the 7th China-Eurasia Expo, which was launched on Monday in Urumqi, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, as the region strives to build itself into a bridgehead of Belt and Road cooperation despite the US' economic suffocation of this...more
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) has always paid great attention to the Afghan issue. Especially after US' hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, many observers from the international community have focused on how the SCO can and will address the hardship Afghanistan faces. Days before the SCO Samarkand...more