Prof. Zhang Weiwei August 1, 2021
Editor's Note: China has been put in an awkward situation. The more successful it becomes, the more it faces criticism from the West based on lies and ideological bias. How can China build an equally powerful voice to match its national strength and international status? How should people view...more
US-launched cyberattacks have ramped up attacks against an online petition for a probe into Fort Detrick lab on COVID-19 origins as it has gathered nearly 20 million signatures. The petition has been a channel for overseas netizens to contribute their signature as many have expressed their support. As...more
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC). From a small gathering in Shanghai, to a political juggernaut with 95 million members, the CPC has transformed China dramatically over a journey of a century, attaining power in 1949 and creating...more
Editor's Note: China's ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) just celebrated its centennial on July 1. With its success in leading China from a poor country into a globally strong state, what can China's neighboring countries learn from the CPC's experience? Krishna Bahadur Mahara (Mahara), former speaker of the...more
Editor's Note: China on July 1 declared that it has reached its first centenary milestone development goal – building a moderately prosperous society, or xiaokang, in all respects and is marching in confident strides toward the second centennial goal of building China into a great modern socialist country....more
China's self-developed and the world's fastest maglev transportation system with a speed of 600 kilometers per hour rolled off the assembly line on Tuesday in Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province, marking another crucial milestone in the country's rapid rise as a global leader in high-speed rail technology and...more
China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine has been approved for emergency use among population aged between 3 and 17 years old, after phase-II clinic trial data suggests it is at least 98.9 percent effective in producing antibodies, a higher efficacy than in population over 18 years old. The experiment included...more
Following US President Joe Biden's decision to bring US forces in Afghanistan home, NATO also started withdrawing its own mission from the country. Twenty years after the war in Afghanistan began under former US president George W. Bush, the US-led NATO pullout is leaving a devastated, broken and...more
The recent disastrous flooding in western Germany and Belgium has caused at least 170 deaths. Local authorities in Germany were criticized for not evacuating people in time. Germany has always been an example of excellent governance in Europe. In people's perception, it is always meticulous, and German society...more
Amid Canberra's reckless diplomatic strategy and deteriorating ties with its largest trading partner, its tourism has emerged as a new sector unable to avoid the fallout with declining tourists from China even after the pandemic ends. Industrial practitioners are reportedly planning to turn to Japan and India for...more
As a renowned Japanese company profiting in China, Sony has repeatedly crossed the line with various actions that hurt the national pride of the Chinese people. Its founding prospectus emphasizes that one of its founders, Masaru Ibuka, worked to produce new military equipment for the Japanese army during...more
Chinese COVID-19 vaccine producers Sinopharm and Sinovac reached advance purchase agreements with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) to provide as many as 550 million doses of China-made vaccines for the world through the COVAX Facility, a move that would largely help the world tackle the...more
On Wednesday (July 7), over 40 progressive groups sent a letter to US President Joe Biden and lawmakers urging them to prioritize cooperation with China. In the letter, they criticized Washington's current confrontational approach to China with "the growing Cold War mentality." In terms of the political spectrum,...more
Some enterprises in South China's Guangdong Province were told to avoid using electricity during the peak period in May and June, but the shortfall was met by power supply from other regions and production remained normal, enterprises and industry observers told the Global Times on Monday. In response...more
On July 12, 2016, under the manipulation of the US, the arbitral tribunal on the South China Sea arbitration case issued an "arbitral award" at the request of the Aquino III government of the Philippines. This staged a farce that shocked the world by sweepingly denying China's claims...more