Martin Jacques June 22, 2023
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 countries along...more
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to embark on a state visit to the US beginning Wednesday. The White House Coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell once said that the bilateral relationship between the US and India is "most important in 21st century." With the Biden administration's...more
At the moment of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's arrival in Beijing, CNN, the Washington Post, BBC and some other Western media used a grayish "underworld filter" on China, maliciously fabricating the weather in Beijing as cloudy and hazy when Blinken got off the plane. The State...more
Today, we need to discuss the global significance and value of Chinese civilization within the framework of rejuvenating Chinese civilization. This is very important because only within the framework of "rejuvenation" can we see that Chinese civilization has long had global significance. We need to discuss the relationships...more
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China and Honduras on Monday signed a cooperation document on jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), vowing to strengthen coordination in their policies and development plans and deepen cooperation in various areas. The move was particularly notable, given that it came less than three months after...more
Japan's unilateral decision to discharge nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the sea disregards international law and public opinion, said analysts on Sunday, one day before Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, starts trial operations of equipment for dumping nuclear-contaminated wastewater into...more
Fierce opposition from home and abroad flooded Japan as the operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has officially begun trialing its equipment on Monday to dump nuclear-contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean, according to multiple media reports. Criticism and protests came from neighboring nations including...more
In early summer, the state-owned Xinhua forest farm in Linhe district, Bayannur, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is lush with greenery, casting a shade on the sand. These seemingly ordinary trees have been gazed upon by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC)...more
It's been 10 years now since a massive leak of secret American intelligence documents exposed to the world what most of the world had probably suspected for a long time: The US is the world's first and foremost nation when it comes to spying on its enemies, with...more
To begin with a simple statistic: before the peaceful liberation of Xizang (Tibet) in 1951, literacy was less than 5 percent of the population; today, literacy is more than 95.5 percent. Before 1951 education was only for the children of the aristocratic ruling elite; after liberation, education became...more
Conspiracy theories are attractive because it makes the opponent mysterious and powerful. And it is, of course, very tempting to assume that the US originally conceived the whole adventure around Ukraine in order to drag its European allies into a worthless struggle with Russia. In reality, however, things...more
In international politics, terms and jargon are often used to describe a situation or relationship. By doing so, complex issues seem to be simplified and much room is left for further interpretation, either in a good way or a bad one. At a time when snack culture prevails,...more
Recently, the renovation of the dome of the historic Najiaying Mosque in Tonghai County, Yuxi City, Southwest China's Yunnan Province, has been manipulated by certain forces and foreign media to attack China's religious policy. They deliberately and ill-intentionally view the localization of religion, especially the Chinese government's efforts...more
Editor's Note: It has been a decade since the PRISM scandal which enraged the world was exposed by Edward Snowden. Under the guise of so-called national interests, the US government and its related intelligence agencies utilize their technological and first-mover advantages to conduct cyber surveillance on and attack...more