Left Review Online September 22, 2023
Editor's Note: Staff from the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Landscape and Greening have arranged a giant flower basket with the words "Bless the Motherland" at Tiananmen Square. The basket is filled with flowers that symbolize good wishes and abundant harvest, such as rice, wheat, millet, yellow corn, and...more
From the majestic bronze sacrificial vessel Simuwu Ding to the spectacular chariot pulled by six white horses, when China's classic Romance of the Investiture of the Gods was adapted into a fantasy epic film by director Wu Ershan, he revealed that the production team visited as many museums...more
Editor's Note: The Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of Jingmai Mountain in Pu'er, Southwest China's Yunnan Province was inscribed onto the UNESCO World Heritage list on Sunday during the 45th session of the World Heritage Committee in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, becoming the first World Heritage site for...more
Sales of aquatic products from Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have jumped in recent days after going viral on Chinese social media platforms, sparking discussion and buying interest among Chinese netizens, as Xinjiang is typically famous for its deserts and Gobi Desert products, along with fruit and...more
A vibrant display of new-energy products ranging from batteries to electric vehicles (EVs) at the ongoing 20th China-ASEAN Expo in Nanning, South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, serves as a prime example of deepening cooperation between China and ASEAN member countries in the emerging field. The exhibition hall...more
Since the new Counter-Espionage Law was enacted in July, China's Ministry of State Security (MSS), whose work is usually classified and covert, is now stepping into the public limelight as the top national security authority announced a slew of detailed espionage cases over the last two months, as...more
Chinese people paid tribute to their fellow compatriots and the war to defend the motherland against foreign invasion on Monday, the 92nd anniversary of the September 18 Incident that marked the start of Japan's invasion of China. On Monday morning, as a reminder for people to remember history...more
Momentum on high-level engagement between the US and China is being maintained as senior Chinese and US officials held multiple rounds of meetings in Malta over the weekend, serving as candid, substantive and constructive strategic communication on stabilizing and improving bilateral relations. Some experts believed that the latest...more
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday began his four-day trip to Russia to attend the 18th round of China-Russia strategic security consultation, with a range of bilateral and multilateral issues related to security expected to be discussed, following his two-day meeting with US National Security Adviser Jake...more
Speech by the President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, in the general debate at the 78th session of the UN General Assembly. New York, Tuesday, September 19, 2023. Mr President, Mr Secretary-General, Your excellencies, I bring to this Assembly the voice of the South, that...more
Editor's Note: This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping. Through the lens of foreign pundits, we take a look at 10 years of the BRI - how it achieves win-win cooperation between China and participating countries...more
At the invitation of Secretary Nikolai Patrushev of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Wang Yi, 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 visiting...more
A recent article from US news magazine Newsweek, entitled "Has China's Shanghai Turned Into 'Ghost Town'? What Photos Show" citing a user of social media platform X and photos he posted which suggested China's Shanghai has turned into a "ghost town," has stirred strong sentiments on Chinese social...more
Mr. President, I have the honor to speak on behalf of the Group of 77 and China. This mid-term review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is taking place at a time of extremely critical juncture, in which developing countries face multiple challenges and an unjust economic...more
Has China's Shanghai turned into a "ghost town"? This "nonsense" that can be easily distinguished by both Chinese people and foreigners with basic common sense has astonishingly become the headline of an article in the well-established American news magazine, Newsweek. There are indeed people playing tricks behind this...more