It's a tradition in the US that ex-presidents don't criticize a successor. It's rare for a predecessor to rebuke an incumbent president. But former president Barack Obama has violated the code of silence, criticizing Donald Trump for mishandling the novel coronavirus epidemic repeatedly. After the former president harshly...more

Beijing. China published sweeping guidelines to improve the country's "socialist market economy," which include instructions for accelerating market reform and opening-up as well as refining national security reviews and setting up an "unreliable entity list", to better supervise foreign companies' investment in the country. The guidelines, released Monday...more

The Yungang Grottoes, the more than 1,500-year-old UNESCO World Cultural Heritage, continued to shine amid the COVID-19 pandemic following a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday. Located in Datong, North China's Shanxi Province, the Yungang Grottoes were built along a section of the ancient Silk Road...more

TCM doctors in Russia were among the first ones to act in the COVID-19 outbreak, helping ease the nervousness of Chinese residents at the onset of the pandemic. "We mainly direct people to prevent the disease by using TCM means. If the patients get severe, we help them...more

As more than 5,000 Chinese lawmakers and political advisors from across the country start to arrive in Beijing for the annual legislative and political consultative meetings, or the two sessions as the events are generally termed, what awaits them is a seemingly impossible task: Prescribing the right cure...more

Villagers of Atuleer on Tuesday waved goodbye to their life above the clouds. Atuleer drew worldwide attention a few years ago for being perched on top of a cliff 1,500 meters above sea level in Southwest China's Sichuan Province. Urban life awaits the villagers further down the hill...more

A China-assisted makeshift hospital, the largest of its kind in Nigeria, was handed over to the Nigerian government on Tuesday, shoring up the western African nation's defenses against the COVID-19 pandemic. The hospital, the first makeshift facility in Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria, is a renovation of...more

China prioritized human rights amid the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring people’s lives and health in a people-centric approach, and therefore achieved the results of quickly taking the epidemic under control, experts stressed in an international conference entitled “ Guarantee of the Right to Life in Epidemic Prevention and Control...more

Beijing, China. Jinan, the capital of East China's Shandong Province aims to build up a secure quantum fiber link connecting the province, ramping up efforts to nurture the nascent cutting-edge technology to world-class level. Jinan's mayor Sun Shutao said in a local government report that the city, aiming...more

All three major production networks in the world - East Asia, North America and Europe - have encountered economic fallout from the deadly COVID-19. Regions more deeply involved in globalization with more complex technique requirements and closer international divisions of labor are being hit harder by the virus....more

Beijing. Both cargo and passenger transportation in China's aviation sector plunged over 60 percent year-on-year in April as the global COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage, though the decline narrowed with Chinese economic and social activities on a recovery trajectory, official data showed on Wednesday. The country's aviation industry...more

Argentina is near a new default of "its" debt. It is "its" debt because the debt cycles in Argentina - like in most of the developing countries - are always a complex process of facts in which injustice are most of the time the rule. In the enormous...more

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security warned that Chinese hackers were attempting to steal novel coronavirus data on treatments and vaccines from the US, the Voice of America (VOA) reported on Wednesday. "The two organizations gave no examples to support the allegation,"...more

The White House on Monday ordered all West Wing staff to wear masks at work, except when they are sitting at their own desks, according to New York Times. US President Donald Trump has previously politicized masks, even suggesting to the public at one point they weren't necessary....more

I welcome the criticism of my call for China to expand the number of its nuclear warheads. Here is my response to those criticisms. First, to advocate that China increase the number of nuclear weapons is itself anti-peace. Some people holding this view are idealistic and have a...more