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HRW politicizes human rights with a biased report attacking Cambodian dam project

Suos Yara August 26, 2021

HRW politicizes human rights with a biased report attacking Cambodian dam project

Human rights are for humanity, not for Human Rights Watch (HRW). Human rights must be understood and approached based on the context and the stage of nation building and state building. Above all, human rights must not be politicized in the way HRW has done. To understand the...more

Senator reveals ‘30,000 US troops stationed in Taiwan island,’ equal to ‘declaring war on China’ if it’s true; tweet deleted after wide controversy

Liu Caiyu August 25, 2021

Senator reveals ‘30,000 US troops stationed in Taiwan island,’ equal to ‘declaring war on China’ if it’s true; tweet deleted after wide controversy

A senior US senator, also a member of US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on his social media revealed that the US has 30,000 soldiers stationed in China's Taiwan island. If the tweet is correct, it is a military invasion and occupation of China's Taiwan and equivalent to...more

Newly disclosed germ warfare archives reveal US helped Japanese war criminals escape trial in exchange for bio materials

Liu Caiyu August 25, 2021

Newly disclosed germ warfare archives reveal US helped Japanese war criminals escape trial in exchange for bio materials

More concrete evidence of Japanese troop's atrocity of germ warfare during World War II has been made public, as confessions of a commander of the Japanese germ warfare unit to the US after the war were released in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, which also disclosed the shocking secret...more

Kabul’s ‘Saigon moment:’ US trapped in the puzzle of how to end its strategic profligacy properly and decently

Shen Yi August 25, 2021

Kabul’s ‘Saigon moment:’ US trapped in the puzzle of how to end its strategic profligacy properly and decently

August 15, the day that marked the 76th anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender in World War II, also witnessed the capital of Afghanistan being taken over by the Taliban at a stunning speed and with almost no bloodshed. US' practices in Afghanistan, which began in 2001 and ended...more

Using Afghanistan as a guide, will US treatment of Taiwan island be any different?

Franz Gayl August 25, 2021

Using Afghanistan as a guide, will US treatment of Taiwan island be any different?

Question: What do Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Lebanon and Vietnam share in common? Answer: Abandonment by an imperialist US. It is quite natural for a gambler to quit and cut their losses when bets and investments go sour. So it was with colonialism, and so it goes again with...more

Phased progress as Sinopharm speeds up developing Delta-specific vaccines

Leng Shumei August 24, 2021

Phased progress as Sinopharm speeds up developing Delta-specific vaccines

An institute in Wuhan, under the China National Biotec Group (CNBG), a subsidiary of Sinopharm, has isolated the Delta variant of the novel coronavirus and is accelerating development on Delta-specific vaccines, its director told the media. The new Delta variant spread to Wuhan after about a year of...more

Taliban’s rapid victory embarrasses US, smashes image, arrogance

Yang Sheng and Cui Fandi August 24, 2021

Taliban’s rapid victory embarrasses US, smashes image, arrogance

The Afghan Taliban have successfully returned to Kabul and are ready to set up a new government while the hasty US retreat, which had caused deaths to locals, makes the end of the 20-year-long war look increasingly embarrassing to the US. The UN Security Council held an emergency...more

US ambassadorship to China still vacant; role ‘quite limited as Biden prefers higher-level talks with China’

Bai Yunyi August 16, 2021

US ambassadorship to China still vacant; role ‘quite limited as Biden prefers higher-level talks with China’

As the position of US ambassador to China remains vacant after over 10 months, a rare occurrence since the two countries established diplomatic ties, Chinese experts on US affairs believe that the Biden administration wants to prioritize direct talks with China through higher-level officials because the role of...more

Source refutes Aussie journalist’s rumor that researcher at Beijing lab infected with coronavirus at work

Xie Wenting and Bai Yunyi August 16, 2021

Source refutes Aussie journalist’s rumor that researcher at Beijing lab infected with coronavirus at work

As US President Joe Biden's deadline for the intelligence community to hand over the report of the origins of coronavirus approaches, Australia's right-wing newspaper The Australian and some US tabloids are churning out another vicious rumor that the "coronavirus comes from a Chinese lab." This time they smeared...more

For US elites, Asian civilian casualties are acceptable collateral damage

Franz Gayl August 16, 2021

For US elites, Asian civilian casualties are acceptable collateral damage

The US has publicly expressed concern that the People's Republic of China (PRC) is modernizing its defensive strategic weapons capabilities. All the while, it is known in the public domain that Washington is always ready with an immeasurably more powerful arsenal of nuclear weapons. Since our allegedly moral...more

US consulate pressures firms to leave HK in fresh attempt to sow chaos in the city

Shen Weiduo and Zhao Juecheng August 15, 2021

US consulate pressures firms to leave HK in fresh attempt to sow chaos in the city

After issuing a warning to US firms over the "risks" of doing business in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), the US government has taken a step further and sought to pressure businesses to leave the city, in a fresh attempt to sow chaos in the city...more

US No. 1 failure in anti-epidemic fight: Think Tanks

Chen Qingqing and Liu Caiyu August 15, 2021

US No. 1 failure in anti-epidemic fight: Think Tanks

Does the US rank No. 1 in COVID-19 resilience? A report jointly issued by three Chinese think tanks on Monday unveiled the truth of America's fight against the coronavirus, which indicates that the US deserves to be the world's No. 1 anti-pandemic failure, apart from being the No....more

Biden will not abandon US’ One China policy: US scholar Michael D. Swaine

Li Qingqing August 15, 2021

Biden will not abandon US’ One China policy: US scholar Michael D. Swaine

Editor's Note: As a bipartisan "anti-China" consensus seems to become increasingly solid in the US and the US' foreign policy is showing more recklessness, how will the US' China policy develop in the future? How can the impasse of China-US relations be broken and move the ties forward?...more

India no cure for Australia’s trade woes

Left Review Online August 15, 2021

India no cure for Australia’s trade woes

In an opinion piece published in The Australian newspaper on Monday, former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott claimed when it came to Australia's trade policy the "answer to almost every question about China is India." "Because trade deals are about politics as much as economics, a swift deal...more

US bombing Taliban in an attempt to exert control in post-withdrawal era

Qian Feng August 14, 2021

US bombing Taliban in an attempt to exert control in post-withdrawal era

US President Joe Biden has ordered B-52 bombers and Specter gunships to target Taliban positions in Afghanistan. The Taliban are advancing toward key cities, according to Kabul-based Tolo News on Saturday. This embodies the US' deep concern about the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan. Washington is worried that...more