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China-US ties on the brink of a complete breakdown: Roach

Stephen S. Roach May 14, 2020

China-US ties on the brink of a complete breakdown: Roach

[In his article "The end of the US-China relationship," Stephen S. Roach, a faculty member at Yale University and former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, describes new shifts in the China-US relationship amid the COVID-19 pandemic. He wrote, "After 48 years of painstaking progress, a major rupture of...more

Unseating China from global supply chains ‘pie in the sky’

Left Review Online May 12, 2020

Unseating China from global supply chains ‘pie in the sky’

The Trump administration's intent to unseat China as the mainstay of global supply chains may be just pie in the sky, observers said, noting that China ought to open its economy even further while driving indigenous innovation to propel growth. The Trump administration is pushing to rip global...more

Holiday economy rebounds in China

Wang Cong May 11, 2020

Holiday economy rebounds in China

China on Tuesday marked a milestone in its efforts to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, as over 100 million tourists flocked to popular attraction sites across the country during the just-concluded May Day holiday and spent billions of dollars, all while averting a much-feared resurgence of COVID-19 cases....more

Birth of coronavirus still a mystery, blame game needs to be averted

Wen Sheng May 11, 2020

Birth of coronavirus still a mystery, blame game needs to be averted

The birth of the lethal COVID-19 remains a mystery, as French virologists have determined a male patient near Paris who was diagnosed with pneumonia on December 27, and actually was infected with the novel coronavirus. This is a stunning scientific find. The Frenchman, in his 50s who has...more

US messes up manipulation of virus origin: Chinese Media

Left Review Online May 11, 2020

US messes up manipulation of virus origin: Chinese Media

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo proclaimed that "enormous evidence" shows the COVID-19 outbreak began in a laboratory in Wuhan, raising doubts immediately with his claim as it breaks with common recognition of global scientists. The World Health Organization said there were some 15,000 full genome sequences of...more

Increasing housing turnover could lift Chinese economy

Wang Bozun May 11, 2020

Increasing housing turnover could lift Chinese economy

With rising turnover, housing sector will expedite China's economy recovery as the COVID-19 epidemic has obviously eased, industry experts and insiders told the Global Times on Tuesday. Citing data from the Beijing Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the China Securities Journal (CSJ) reported that 11,973 apartments...more

COVID-19 spread in emerging markets brings in new round of shocks to global economy

Left Review Online May 11, 2020

COVID-19 spread in emerging markets brings in new round of shocks to global economy

As the coronavirus pandemic is seeing an accelerating situation in emerging markets, the third round of hits to the global economy is shaping up and emerging market economies will encounter tougher challenges. Although the spread of the COVID-19 has seen flattened curves in Europe and the US, with...more

RCEP may be signed by year-end, probably without India: Experts

Yang Kunyi May 11, 2020

RCEP may be signed by year-end, probably without India: Experts

The downward pressure posed by COVID-19 on the member countries of the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), as well as China's relatively early economic recovery, may encourage progress on regional economic cooperation and lead to an agreement being signed by year-end, according to experts, but the process...more

Fundamentalist myopia drives US campaign against China

Li Qingqing May 10, 2020

Fundamentalist myopia drives US campaign against China

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been groundlessly attacking China. His point of view reflects many US politicians' hatred toward China and the Communist Party of China (CPC). The US is a country deeply influenced by Christianity. Behind such hatred, there is an extreme religious nationalism or...more

China turns a page with two sessions to convene in May: Chinese Media

Global Times editorial May 9, 2020

China turns a page with two sessions to convene in May: Chinese Media

This year's two sessions, China's most important annual political events, will convene on May 21 and May 22, according to an official announcement made on Wednesday. On the same day, Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei announced they would lower their emergency response to the COVID-19 epidemic from the top...more

Anti-intellectualism impedes US COVID-19 fight

Xin Qiang May 7, 2020

Anti-intellectualism impedes US COVID-19 fight

Beijing. Violating social distancing requirements, protesters gathered Saturday afternoon in Austin and Dallas of Texas, to rally against local stay-at-home orders and to demand Texas businesses reopen, according to local news portal the Austin American-Statesman. Video clips circulating online show protesters holding signs calling COVID-19 "a hoax" with...more

Xi-endorsed fungus reaps 3 million yuan online sales in his Shaanxi visit

Left Review Online May 6, 2020

Xi-endorsed fungus reaps 3 million yuan online sales in his Shaanxi visit

Beijing. Li Xuying, a 20-something livestreaming sensation based in Zhashui, a small county deep in the Qinling Mountains in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, has never imagined she would see 420,000 viewers from across the country rush into her livestream all at once and buy up her entire stock...more

US-China decoupling unfeasible – David Firestein

GT Reporter Yu Jincui May 6, 2020

US-China decoupling unfeasible – David Firestein

Editor’s Note: As the COVID-19 pandemic, a black swan event that is exerting devastating effects on people’s health, social order, economy and even state-to-state relations, continue to rage on, voices calling for China-US cooperation are rising worldwide. How will the pandemic reshape China-US relations? Can China and the US...more

China and India need common front to confront COVID-19

Liu Zongyi May 5, 2020

China and India need common front to confront COVID-19

The coronavirus pandemic has severely impacted almost every country, and many of the world's leading politicians and scholars are now discussing world order after the crisis. The pandemic will indeed change many things, but for the international political and economic landscape, it will be more of a catalyst,...more

US Navy victimized by White House political games

Song Zhongping May 5, 2020

US Navy victimized by White House political games

US top Navy officers now want their aircraft carrier captain Brett Crozier back in his position after he urged the protection for his navy crew members by whistleblowing the virus via a fraught letter to US Navy leadership. Crozier should be restored to command of the Theodore Roosevelt,...more