Ileana Ferrer Fonte for PL January 22, 2022
Moscow, (PL). Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone with his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolas Maduro, about cooperation in the fight against Covid-19 and the supply of vaccines, the Kremlin revealed on Friday. During the conversation, occurred on Thursday, the two leaders talked about several current issues of cooperation,...more
China's postal administration on Monday vowed to "build a barrier" against COVID-19 cases imported through international express mail, after at least two Omicron cases, one in Beijing and another one in Shenzhen, were suspected of tracking back to packages from North America. Virologists warned of the high risk...more
Rail freight between China and North Korea has resumed after the pandemic caused it to be suspended for some time, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Monday. After friendly consultations between the two countries, freight transportation at the rail port between China's Dandong and North Korea's Sinuiju has...more
The National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS) released data on the national economy in 2021 on Monday, with the country's gross domestic product (GDP) expanding 8.1 percent year-on-year, which was well above the government target of "above 6 percent" set at the beginning of 2021, and the...more
As the COVID-19 epidemic takes away hundreds of lives every day in the US, that country's propaganda machinery is engaging in vicious smears against China's dynamic zero-case policy of epidemic prevention. For example, The New York Times published a typical article on Wednesday, written by Li Yuan, a...more
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday delivered his first major speech of the new year at a global event at the World Economic Forum (WEF), where he issued stern warnings against acts of containment, confrontation and suppression as well as practices of hegemony and bullying, while calling on...more
Managua, (PL). The integration of the North and South Caribbean zones, after the construction of highways, telecommunications infrastructure and access to health care, education, drinking water and sanitation, currently shows a poverty reduction in Nicaragua. Jose Figueroa, a legislator and executive secretary for the parliamentarian group of the...more
North Korea on Wednesday reported the latest test of a hypersonic missile with the witness of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and missile analysts pointed out related data revealed that North Korea may have acquired the technologies but still needs more tests to demonstrate and enhance the weapon's...more
The collapse of socialism, a great political earthquake, which started in the late 1980s ended with the red flag pulling down at Kremlin, Moscow, in December 1991. The continuous collapse of socialism in the USSR and other eastern European countries made people expect the “end of socialism” in...more
With the protraction and resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic of the century, the difficult recovery of the global economy and the turmoil of the international situation, humanity has entered the year 2022. Facing so much uncertainty, people hope that in 2022, the pandemic will end as soon as...more
For the first time, the leaders of China, France, Russia, the UK and the US on Monday issued a joint statement on preventing nuclear war and avoiding arms races, in which China played a powerful leading role, and pushed for the reaffirmation of not aiming nuclear devices at...more
What is democracy? For some, democracy is a value in crisis or a system that awakens the masses from four years of slumber just to cast a ballot. But for the Chinese, it is something to go on about on a daily basis but something witnessed, experienced and...more
JOINT STATEMENT OF WORLD POLITICAL PARTIES, SOCIAL ORGANISATIONS AND THINK TANKS ON MAKING INDEPENDENT EFFORTS TO EXPLORE THE PATH TOWARD DEMOCRACY AND WORKING TOGETHER TO PROMOTE COMMON DEVELOPMENT Democracy represents an important achievement of humanity in the advancement of political civilization, and development an eternal pursuit throughout human...more
With the US attempting to ring-fence Chinese telecommunications technology, it has become more urgent than ever for China to break the blockade of West-led alliance in consolidating its role in network infrastructure. The US, Australia and Japan announced on Sunday their jointing funding of an undersea communication cable...more
A recent questionnaire survey conducted by the Global Times found that most Chinese young people, especially Generation Z born in the 1990s and 2000s, now view China as more democratic than the US and Western political systems, which are no longer considered a "role model" of democracy, while...more