GT staff reporters January 24, 2024
The world economic recovery is expected to remain slow and imbalanced in 2024, with China to continue to lead global growth, a report showed on Saturday. Analysts said China's GDP growth is expected to reach about 5 percent this year, calling for stepped-up fiscal policy to further tap...more
The central political and legal work central conference convened from Saturday to Sunday revealed that since last August, the number of telecommunications fraud cases nationwide has decreased by 28.6 percent compared with the previous year. According to the central conference on judicial, procuratorial and public security work held...more
The combination of Tianzhou-7 cargo spacecraft and Long March-7 Y8 carrier rocket was rolled out to the launchpad in Wenchang Space Launch Site in South China's Hainan Province on Monday. All facilities in the Wenchang spaceport are in good conditions and testing work is underway for the first...more
JL-8 trainer jets of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force's Red Falcon Aerobatic Team arrived in Laos on Saturday in preparation for its first-ever flight performance in a foreign country, with experts saying on Sunday that the visit will contribute to development of the two countries'...more
China and the League of Arab States issued a joint statement on the Israel-Palestine conflict on Sunday, urging an immediate and comprehensive cease-fire and stressing the two-state solution as "a basis" for any future settlement concerning the fate of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the...more
It has been apparently more than one month since the Philippines last sent ships to trespass into waters off China's Ren'ai Jiao (also known as Ren'ai Reef), marking the longest pause in Manila's provocations since August. This is a situation that marked a temporary de-escalation in tensions in...more
As Nauru announced Monday that it will recognize the one-China principle and sever "diplomatic relations" with Taiwan, experts noted that Nauru has seen win-win results of cooperation between China and South Pacific island nations, and China and Nauru will accelerate cooperation in agriculture and infrastructure fields. In a...more
Chinese Foreign Ministry said China appreciates and welcomes Nauru's decision of severing "diplomatic ties" with the Taiwan region, which was announced on Monday on the heels of the regional election in the island, reflecting that the one-China principle is a prevailing consensus among the international community. The decision...more
China's three-day New Year's Day holidays, which ended on Monday, saw a consumer market boom with bustling travel and spending activities across the country, according to various data on Monday, offering more vivid displays of sustained vitality and vast potential in China's consumption market, the biggest driver for...more
As the new year of 2024 has begun, Chinese people are hopeful of a more substantive rise in family incomes than in 2023. But uncertainties will continue to engulf the world, including hot conflicts, cold economic wars, blockades of important waterways like the Red Sea, and possibly, another...more
Editor's Note: In recent years, the US has displayed an increasing willingness to implement tariffs and chip restrictions. These moves have raised concerns about the potential impact on the global economy and cooperation between China and the US. In an interview with Global Times reporter Wang Yi (GT),...more
The world ushered in the year 2024 amid both celebrating fireworks and flame of wars, much like the hope and crisis that this era holds. Although people learned to coexist with COVID-19 in 2023, the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict reminded the world of the complex and...more
US espionage and intelligence agencies that work to infiltrate other countries are complaining to the US media about the difficulties of their malicious undertakings against other countries' national security, in order to convince Washington's politicians and decision-makers to allocate them more resources and money. In other words, they...more
Editor's Note: The year 2023 witnessed many changes in the international landscape and also saw more voices from the Global South on the global stage. It was also a year in which the US continued to forcefully impose its ideology on other countries, Japan's nuclear-contaminated wastewater dumping was...more
In the 12th century, Ismail Al Jazari, an engineer from the Middle East, created automated devices including mechanized wine servant. It was a remarkable invention back in the medieval time, manifesting the Middle East people's early quest for a futuristic high-tech lifestyle. Now, after roughly a millennium, robots...more