Interview

COVID origins tracing must stop being politicized and return to reason and science: Jeffrey Sachs

Left Review Online August 14, 2021

COVID origins tracing must stop being politicized and return to reason and science: Jeffrey Sachs

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

Internal US politics drives country’s conflict, not COVID-19 or China: Carsten Boyer Thøgersen

Yu Jincui and Lu Yuanzhi August 11, 2021

Internal US politics drives country’s conflict, not COVID-19 or China: Carsten Boyer Thøgersen

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

How should China improve its intl communication capacity?

Prof. Zhang Weiwei August 1, 2021

How should China improve its intl communication capacity?

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

Nepal values CPC’s enduring lessons: Hon. Krishna Bahadur Mahara

Hu Yuwei July 25, 2021

Nepal values CPC’s enduring lessons: Hon. Krishna Bahadur Mahara

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

China demonstrates no military threat toward Europe: EU MP Clare Daly

Li Qingqing July 10, 2021

China demonstrates no military threat toward Europe: EU MP Clare Daly

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

Misjudgments of CPC blind West of reality and future : Zheng Yongnian

Bai Yunyi June 25, 2021

Misjudgments of CPC blind West of reality and future : Zheng Yongnian

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

CPC’s self-motivation comes from deep feelings of patriotism: Yuri Tavrovsky

Wang Wenwen June 16, 2021

CPC’s self-motivation comes from deep feelings of patriotism: Yuri Tavrovsky

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

Performance legitimacy generates strong leadership of CPC – Danilo Türk, Former President of Slovenia

Yu Jincui June 5, 2021

Performance legitimacy generates strong leadership of CPC – Danilo Türk, Former President of Slovenia

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

‘No one in sight to match Nixon in US-China ties’ : Charles W. Freeman Jr.

Left Review Online June 5, 2021

‘No one in sight to match Nixon in US-China ties’ : Charles W. Freeman Jr.

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

Biden-Putin summit faces huge chasm, won’t divide Russia-China : Danil Bochkov

Yu Jincui June 4, 2021

Biden-Putin summit faces huge chasm, won’t divide Russia-China : Danil Bochkov

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

Russia, China acting together can change balance of power in their favor: Vladimir Kolotov

Xia Wenxin May 28, 2021

Russia, China acting together can change balance of power in their favor: Vladimir Kolotov

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

Westerners need to adapt to China’s influence – Kerry Brown

Sun Wei May 19, 2021

Westerners need to adapt to China’s influence – Kerry Brown

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

Quad unlikely to evolve beyond a point because of lack of common goals: Indian Scholar Joshi

Left Review Online April 9, 2021

Quad unlikely to evolve beyond a point because of lack of common goals: Indian Scholar Joshi

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

American researcher documents China’s poverty alleviation success, revealing the winning formula

Zhang Mengxu March 10, 2021

American researcher documents China’s poverty alleviation success, revealing the winning formula

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

Adapting Islam to local conditions best course for development in Chinese society: Yang Faming, President, China Islamic Association

Xie Wenting February 17, 2021

Adapting Islam to local conditions best course for development in Chinese society: Yang Faming, President, China Islamic Association

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