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New Delhi will be frustrated playing the Taiwan card

Li Qingqing October 12, 2020

New Delhi will be frustrated playing the Taiwan card

The Hindustan Times (HT) on Monday published an editorial titled "A reminder for China: India is free." The editorial attempts to justify some Indian media outlets celebrating the "national day" of the Taiwan island. "India is a proud democracy. It has a free and vibrant media," the article...more

Greening the desert

Yu Jincui in Kashgar, Cao Siqi in Karamay and Hu Weijia in Aksu October 9, 2020

Greening the desert

In Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, where desertification accounts for 43 percent of the region's land mass, local people have never stopped fighting against desertification. With China stepping up efforts in promoting ecological civilization, officials and people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang have been carrying out...more

WeChat legal battle far from over in US

GT staff reporters October 7, 2020

WeChat legal battle far from over in US

The legal battle against the Trump administration's WeChat ban will reach a federal appellate court if an upcoming hearing rules in favor of the US government, according to a non-profit group representing US WeChat users, which has insisted on a high-profile challenge against the ban since August. That...more

China to protect TikTok at ‘all cost’

Wang Cong October 5, 2020

China to protect TikTok at ‘all cost’

China is prepared to prevent Chinese firm TikTok and its advanced technologies from falling into US hands at all cost, even if that means the vastly popular video sharing app risks being shut down in the US, because allowing the US to seize the firm and its technology...more

India’s border fire may lead to ‘unbearable consequence’

Left Review Online October 4, 2020

India’s border fire may lead to ‘unbearable consequence’

Chinese observers warned on Saturday that India's latest tricks of doubling troops at the border and authorizing frontline soldiers to fire in clashes with the Chinese army, all while agreeing to de-escalate tensions at the negotiating table with China, could further increase the risk of conflict at the...more

Time for China to toughen up on insincere India

Liu Zongyi October 3, 2020

Time for China to toughen up on insincere India

Only three days after the sixth round of the China-India military commander-level meeting on Monday with consensus reached by the two sides to cool rising border tensions, The Hindu quoted a "senior [Indian] government official" and suggested "If PLA (People's Liberation Army) comes close, Indian troops can fire."...more

Beijing to strike back at new US actions against Chinese diplomats

Left Review Online October 3, 2020

Beijing to strike back at new US actions against Chinese diplomats

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the New York Post in a recent interview that China's New York consulate general is being used as a major hub for the nation's US espionage efforts, and more Chinese diplomats and agents will likely be arrested. This is the latest...more

Martyrs return home with state’s highest greeting ceremony

Cao Siqi October 3, 2020

Martyrs return home with state’s highest greeting ceremony

Transported via China's domestically developed strategic cargo plane Y-20, which was greeted by arcing jets of water as it taxied to a halt at Taoxian international airport in Shenyang, capital of Northeast China's Liaoning Province, the remains of 117 Chinese soldiers killed in the War to Resist US...more

Fallacies form US strategic thinking about China

William Jones October 3, 2020

Fallacies form US strategic thinking about China

Over the last year or so, US political debates have experienced a "sea change" in thinking with regard to China. Some attribute this to the election of Donald Trump, a political "outsider" who beat the odds and was elected president of the US. And, indeed, Trump wanted to...more

China-India border skirmishes may become a new normal

Huang Kangrui October 2, 2020

China-India border skirmishes may become a new normal

In 2020, China and India have gone through a series of border conflicts. The governments and military officials from both countries have held multiple meetings on different occasions discussing the border crisis. The sixth round of military commander-level meetings between the two sides was held on Monday to...more

China needs new long tech march after US attack on SMIC

Left Review Online October 2, 2020

China needs new long tech march after US attack on SMIC

According to Reuters, the US Department of Commerce has decided to impose restrictions on exports to China's biggest chipmaker SMIC after concluding there is an "unacceptable risk" that equipment supplied to it could be used for military purposes. Though SMIC flatly denied previous allegations, Washington's attitude to snuff...more

China will prevent US TikTok ‘takeover’

Ma Jingjing and Shen Weiduo October 1, 2020

China will prevent US TikTok ‘takeover’

China will resolutely take actions to prevent TikTok and its technologies from falling into the US' hands to protect its national security and the interests of its enterprises, experts said on Sunday, as a hearing continues as of press time in the US over whether the US government's...more

US loses global appeal despite so-called democracy and freedom

Li Qingqing October 1, 2020

US loses global appeal despite so-called democracy and freedom

The New York Times (NYT) on Friday published an article in which political analyst in Myanmar U Aung Thu Nyein said the US "is a first-world country but it is acting like a third-world country." Mike Bradley, mayor of Sarnia, a Canadian city, said in the report that...more

Freight rate of American routes rises with more orders from US

GT staff reporters September 30, 2020

Freight rate of American routes rises with more orders from US

On Saturday morning, lines of container lorries were waiting to discharge cargo at the Shanghai International Port (Group) Co (SIPG), while there were also many empty trucks and ships ready to load goods. Transport vehicles were moving around frequently, and about three or four cargo ships of super-large...more

China won’t allow US to rob TikTok: Expert

Wang Cong September 30, 2020

China won’t allow US to rob TikTok: Expert

While Chinese officials have noticeably maintained public silence over the proposed restructuring plan for TikTok, there is an increasingly unmistakable signal from Beijing that it will not allow the US to rob one of the country's most globally successful apps so openly and unscrupulously, Chinese experts said on...more