Dear compañero Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, first secretary of our Party’s Central Committee; Compañero Esteban Lazo, President of the National Assembly and the Council of State; Compañeros of the Historical Generation who are with us; Deputies; People of Cuba: On the eve of another anniversary of the...more

China is holding a national day of mourning on Saturday to commemorate the 3,335 victims so far of the COVID-19 outbreak, including medical workers and police officers who sacrificed their lives during the battle against the epidemic in the country. Flags fly at half-mast across China and at...more

With the novel coronavirus spreading around the globe, a political virus with deeper influence has also begun to show up. In recent years, white nationalism and white supremacy have been on the rise, a perfect reflection of a political virus that is spreading in the US. If Washington...more

GT: The coronavirus outbreak within China has almost been brought under control. How do you evaluate China's efforts in curbing the epidemic? Kuhn: To me, one of the probative insights of why and how China has contained, and will continue to contain, the epidemic is the remarkable parallelism...more

We mark the Day of the Landless today with utmost concern as the landless rural people have been among the most vulnerable to the impacts of the COVID-19 global pandemic. With them are the small farmers with precarious land ownership or control, and those from landless peasant families...more

Kathmandu. Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' held a discussion on essential steps to be taken by the government to control the spread of Novel Coronavirus and to provide relief to poor people affected by the countrywide lockdown declared by the government. Two...more

While the global health crisis may still have a long way to run, a number of things are already clear. First, viruses are quintessentially transnational and don't care who they infect or what nationality they may be. Second, China seems to have done an impressive job of halting...more

Beijing. According to a recent survey from polling company Rasmussen Reports, 42 percent of US voters think China should cover some of the financial expenses incurred by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Meanwhile, 36 percent disagreed, while another 22 percent said they were undecided. Does the United States have...more

After weeks of chaotic responses by individual countries to the global coronavirus pandemic marked by various restrictions on travel and trade and even finger-pointing, major global powers are finally pushing for coordinated efforts to combat the common threat, injecting a desperately needed sense of direction and hope for...more

As the world is facing challenges brought about by COVID-19, Pakistani President Arif Alvi chose this special time to visit China to show solidarity between the two "iron brothers." On the occasion, Global Times reporter Wang Bozun (GT) sat down with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi (Qureshi),...more

Pyongyang. Supreme Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un said that the Pyongyang General Hospital is being constructed to develop the socialist public health system of the DPRK by consolidating and developing its public health sector with a significant leap forward making this...more

I arrived in Washington DC as a correspondent for a Chinese media outlet at the beginning of 2018. I had many expectations of the city before I arrived. There are many think tanks here and you could talk with important figures and hear their thoughts on latest international...more

Kofi Annan, the late UN Secretary-General, often said the world was a "global village." He was right. Our world has shrunk. The recent spread of COVID-19 worldwide, affecting both rich and developing countries, confirms that all 7.5 billion people of the world live in a global village. Wise...more

Beijing. China announced early Wednesday that it would take countermeasures against restrictive measures on Chinese media agencies in the United States, effective immediately. As a standard and common practice in the diplomacy domain, the move is a decisive response to the Trump administration's unwarranted suppression and discriminatory practices...more

As the novel coronavirus pandemic sweeps the globe with experts warning the worst is yet to come, the US has been busy. At first, it was busy peddling the unproven theory that the virus was "made in China," and is now engaged in wrestling with Germany to seek...more