Different from the other four Five Eyes countries, New Zealand has been declining to join an anti-China chariot, and this has obviously disappointed some Australian elites. A split between Australia and New Zealand is not something that China wishes to see. Yet some Australian people clearly want to...more

Fine words will accompany the G7 summit this week. Much will be promised. And little will be delivered. It has long been like this. The G7 is no longer fit for purpose. Comprising the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Canada and Japan, in the 1970s the G7 was...more

Editor Note: US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are set to hold their first summit in Geneva on June 16. Observers argue the recent US-Russia engagement, including the Lavrov-Blinken meeting, revealed that Washington wants Moscow to pivot away from Beijing. "China-Russia partnership is strong enough...more

A recent article published by the National Interest claimed that "American is certainly not getting its bang for its buck, and Manila has been an increasingly unreliable partner." It regarded the Philippines as the "'least valuable player' among the thirty-four nations with which the United States has a...more

The development of modern technology can easily lead to misperceptions that infectious diseases can be effectively controlled in developed nations. For example, the last naturally occurring case of variole was diagnosed in October 1977, and the World Health Organization (WHO) certified the global eradication of the disease in...more

The Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation in Canada, a home community of the Kamloops Indian Residential School where the remains of 215 children buried at the site have been uncovered, confirmed on Thursday that some children were as young as three years old. "This is a tragedy of...more

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Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will visit the US from Monday to Friday. Before the visit, Jaishankar's remarks on an event hosted by The Financial Times and The Indian Express laid out India's geopolitical calculus in a world that is being shaped by two dominant powers -...more

With the increasingly fierce competition in the global semiconductor industry, there are undoubtedly some obstacles facing China in developing its own self-reliant chip-making production capacity. At the same time, skepticism and pessimism are on the rise regarding China's domestic semiconductor industry, but such external factors won't sway the...more

When a Palestinian girl wept out her tears in the ruins of her bombed home, asking "Why do we deserve this? What did we do for this? They just don't like us because we are Muslims," the US continued to obstruct the UN Security Council (UNSC) to issue...more

A group of about 40 teachers from Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) recently were given a "challenging" job: translate the history of the Communist Party of China (CPC) into seven different languages - English, Russian, French, Spanish, Arabic, German and Japanese, to help more foreigners better know and...more

"No Cold War" campaign has turned into an international movement attracting attention from millions of people. This shows the number of peace lovers around the world is increasing. The so-called new cold war is already an outdated strategic plot made by a group of people in Washington who...more

In April, Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani wrote an article in Foreign Affairs magazine, and gave an interview to Der Spiegel to articulate his vision and framework for the peace process of Afghanistan. It is a critical time that we all come together and work for it, since...more

China's top economic planner on Tuesday urged the Australian government to stop disrupting bilateral trade and investment cooperation, and to promote the sound development of bilateral relations. The comment came after the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) suspended all activities under the China-Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue on...more

Turning a blind eye to its nature as terrorist group and attempting to whitewash its ties with al-Qaeda, the US' double standards on anti-terrorism will backfire, analysts warned in referring to CNN's latest report on exonerating the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) terrorist group. By citing some former...more