Editor's Note: During the past decade, the world has increasingly witnessed a trend of "the East is rising, and the West is declining" in the spheres of economy, security and discourse power. Western countries, particularly the US, plagued by internal woes, have sought the old path of passing...more

Over the Easter holiday weekend in the US, there were at least 10 mass shootings across the country that left eight people dead and dozens injured. This adds to an estimated 144 total mass shootings that have taken place this year alone, according to data from Gun Violence...more

Sri Lanka has not reached any initial agreement with the IMF on debt relief, and its largest creditors -the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank - are urged to come up with a package that would speed up its debt restructuring process, Sri Lanka's Ambassador to...more

Against the background of ricocheting regional tensions, such as the Ukraine-Russia conflict, China and Europe deliver a signal of maintaining economic cooperation by reportedly planning to hold a high-level dialogue on Tuesday. Chinese experts said that the EU should not be "exploited by the US" and hold a...more

BRICS, a grouping of major emerging economies - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - has become one of the trending buzzwords in global public opinion lately. After Iran and Argentina applied to join the BRICS mechanism, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt also plan to knock on...more

Editor's Note: Ten years ago, when China had just become the second-largest economy in the world for three years, the world was still cautiously observing whether China could develop sustainably and some from the West were even predicting that the story of China's rise would end up with...more

Editor's Note: During the past decade, the world has increasingly witnessed a trend of "the East is rising, and the West is declining" in the spheres of economy, security and discourse power. Western countries, particularly the US, plagued by internal woes, have sought the old path of passing...more

Myanmar is installing Chinese-built cameras with facial recognition capabilities in more cities across the country, Reuters reported on Monday, citing anonymous sources. While it is unclear whether the local companies that won the tender for Myanmar's safe city projects actually bought products from Chinese companies, it is worth...more

Editor's Note: When it comes to rapid domestic development and global ascendance, there is hardly any parallel to what China has achieved over the past decade. In a poll conducted by the Global Times Research Center in 2012, over half of foreign respondents viewed China as a "world...more

Japan's Self-Defense Forces and the US military have conspired several times since 2021 to assist Washington in deploying intermediate-range ballistic missiles on Japan's southwest islands in order to achieve "integrated deterrence" against China by strengthening construction of the "first Island chain," a source close to the matter told...more

Editor's Note: Inmates in prisons are subject to labor exploitation, minors working as child laborers are abused, and human trafficking remains rampant: Today, more than 150 years after the abolition of slavery in the US, the above-mentioned problems still exist in the country. Some American politicians have racked...more

Economists and business leaders attending the World Economic Forum (WEF)'s annual meeting on Monday expressed confidence in the long-term outlook for economic growth in China, pinning their hope on the world's second-largest economy to lead a global economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The WEF 2022 Annual Meeting...more

India, a South Asian power that has shown significant differences in attitude toward Russia and other three members of the four-nation coalition Quad, is expected to maintain its autonomy and continues to be cautious about the US-proposed Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) for the sake of its own interests...more

A global food crisis seems to be approaching amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine conflict, extreme weather and skyrocketing prices. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned of a global food crisis if the country cannot export its agricultural goods, while Sara Menker, a food supply expert, said at a...more

Sri Lanka is grappling with the deepest economic crisis it has ever seen. The country has defaulted on its $78 billion worth of payments to international creditors, the first time in its history since its independence. Its debt obligations for this year alone exceed $7 billion, yet Sri...more