Left Review Online August 14, 2021
Editor's Note: The only legitimate goal of the novel coronavirus origins tracing should be "to understand SARS-CoV-2 and work cooperatively together to end the pandemic and to prevent future pandemics," said Jeffrey Sachs, a professor of economics at Columbia University in New York and head of the Lancet COVID-19...more
Editor's Note: "No alternative to the CPC in terms of people or a party with a program and a vision is known of inside or outside China," said Carsten Boyer Thøgersen (Thøgersen), a former diplomat with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and the European Commission. How...more
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
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 has displayed no military hostility to the EU. Most Europeans see China as an ally or necessary partner. The EU is spending more on militarization than China. Where is the evidence it's China that is the aggressor?" This was recently tweeted by Clare Daly (Daly), an...more
Editor's Note: Why do some Western politicians and scholars show much more intention to demonize the Communist Party of China (CPC) when they know very little about the largest political party in the world? To understand China today, one must first know more about the CPC. As the...more
Editor's Note: This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC). How did the CPC lead China to overcome several wars and Western isolation and enable China to achieve fast development? Where does the CPC's self-motivation come from? Global Times (GT) reporter...more
Editor's Note: Over the past 100 years since the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 1921, the party has repeatedly reversed China's fate and led the country through difficulties and challenges to achieve rapid development. Why has the CPC been able to do so? How has...more
Editor's Note: America's latest policies toward China will prove self-defeating, said Charles W. Freeman Jr. (Freeman), a former senior US diplomat who has witnessed the establishment and development of China-US diplomatic relations. Freeman, who served as the principal American interpreter during US president Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China,...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
Editor's Note: Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, is paying a visit to Russia from Monday to Thursday to hold the 16th round...more
Editor's Note: The West and China "need to have a forum for learning, that is a two-way process." Kerry Brown, director of the Lau Institute at King's College London, believes that there are many lessons from China that the world can draw on. Why does Brown hold such an...more
With India having moved closer to the US in recent years, there have been some voices in India saying New Delhi should abandon its non-alignment policy and tie itself firmly to the US in order to cope with the challenges posed by China's development. Will New Delhi completely...more
Editor's Note: "When future historians write the chronicles of our time, a close-up story is likely to be China's targeted poverty alleviation," said Dr. Robert Lawrence Kuhn, chairman of The Kuhn Foundation and recipient of the China Reform Friendship Medal (2018), who has long been researching the poverty...more
Editor's Note: Over the decades, China has made great efforts to provide care to Muslim citizens and ensure their normal needs are met. However, some hostile forces in the West have used every means to smear China's efforts in protecting Muslims and kept making groundless accusations including accusing China...more