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US sensationalizes COVID-19 origins tracing as propaganda game: Prof. Marcos Cordeiro Pires, Brazil

Li Qingqing and Yu Jincui August 28, 2021

US sensationalizes COVID-19 origins tracing as propaganda game: Prof. Marcos Cordeiro Pires, Brazil

Editor's Note: The deadline of the 90-day investigation into the coronavirus origins set by the Biden administration draws near, and US intelligence agencies are reportedly gearing up their efforts to compile a report. Do these intelligence agencies have the ability and reliability to trace where the virus comes from?...more

The US has the moral responsibility over the flood of refugees in Afghanistan

Ding Long August 28, 2021

The US has the moral responsibility over the flood of refugees in Afghanistan

The most turbulent place in Afghanistan since the fall of the Afghan government has been not in Kabul the capital city but at the Kabul international airport. For days, it has witnessed a déjà vu "Saigon moment," with the flood of Afghans desperate, even dying, to get out...more

Leave geopolitical tactics behind to uncover full facts about COVID-19: Former Belgian PM Yves Leterme

Lu Yuanzhi August 26, 2021

Leave geopolitical tactics behind to uncover full facts about COVID-19: Former Belgian PM Yves Leterme

Editor's Note: "It is in the interest of all to leave geopolitical tactics behind and to uncover the full facts," said former Belgian prime minister Yves Leterme, commenting on the US' recent offensives against China over the origins tracing of the coronavirus. When it comes to the role...more

Defeat in Afghanistan a complete humiliation for the US: Martin Jacques

Martin Jacques August 26, 2021

Defeat in Afghanistan a complete humiliation for the US: Martin Jacques

The US is confronted with a historic defeat in Afghanistan at the hands of the Taliban. America's longest war, which began in 2001, is ending in complete humiliation. The Taliban has captured the countryside, every major city and now Kabul has effectively fallen. This is Saigon in 1975...more

Using Afghanistan as a guide, will US treatment of Taiwan island be any different?

Franz Gayl August 25, 2021

Using Afghanistan as a guide, will US treatment of Taiwan island be any different?

Question: What do Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Lebanon and Vietnam share in common? Answer: Abandonment by an imperialist US. It is quite natural for a gambler to quit and cut their losses when bets and investments go sour. So it was with colonialism, and so it goes again with...more

Taliban’s rapid victory embarrasses US, smashes image, arrogance

Yang Sheng and Cui Fandi August 24, 2021

Taliban’s rapid victory embarrasses US, smashes image, arrogance

The Afghan Taliban have successfully returned to Kabul and are ready to set up a new government while the hasty US retreat, which had caused deaths to locals, makes the end of the 20-year-long war look increasingly embarrassing to the US. The UN Security Council held an emergency...more

US ambassadorship to China still vacant; role ‘quite limited as Biden prefers higher-level talks with China’

Bai Yunyi August 16, 2021

US ambassadorship to China still vacant; role ‘quite limited as Biden prefers higher-level talks with China’

As the position of US ambassador to China remains vacant after over 10 months, a rare occurrence since the two countries established diplomatic ties, Chinese experts on US affairs believe that the Biden administration wants to prioritize direct talks with China through higher-level officials because the role of...more

Source refutes Aussie journalist’s rumor that researcher at Beijing lab infected with coronavirus at work

Xie Wenting and Bai Yunyi August 16, 2021

Source refutes Aussie journalist’s rumor that researcher at Beijing lab infected with coronavirus at work

As US President Joe Biden's deadline for the intelligence community to hand over the report of the origins of coronavirus approaches, Australia's right-wing newspaper The Australian and some US tabloids are churning out another vicious rumor that the "coronavirus comes from a Chinese lab." This time they smeared...more

For US elites, Asian civilian casualties are acceptable collateral damage

Franz Gayl August 16, 2021

For US elites, Asian civilian casualties are acceptable collateral damage

The US has publicly expressed concern that the People's Republic of China (PRC) is modernizing its defensive strategic weapons capabilities. All the while, it is known in the public domain that Washington is always ready with an immeasurably more powerful arsenal of nuclear weapons. Since our allegedly moral...more

US consulate pressures firms to leave HK in fresh attempt to sow chaos in the city

Shen Weiduo and Zhao Juecheng August 15, 2021

US consulate pressures firms to leave HK in fresh attempt to sow chaos in the city

After issuing a warning to US firms over the "risks" of doing business in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), the US government has taken a step further and sought to pressure businesses to leave the city, in a fresh attempt to sow chaos in the city...more

US No. 1 failure in anti-epidemic fight: Think Tanks

Chen Qingqing and Liu Caiyu August 15, 2021

US No. 1 failure in anti-epidemic fight: Think Tanks

Does the US rank No. 1 in COVID-19 resilience? A report jointly issued by three Chinese think tanks on Monday unveiled the truth of America's fight against the coronavirus, which indicates that the US deserves to be the world's No. 1 anti-pandemic failure, apart from being the No....more

Biden will not abandon US’ One China policy: US scholar Michael D. Swaine

Li Qingqing August 15, 2021

Biden will not abandon US’ One China policy: US scholar Michael D. Swaine

Editor's Note: As a bipartisan "anti-China" consensus seems to become increasingly solid in the US and the US' foreign policy is showing more recklessness, how will the US' China policy develop in the future? How can the impasse of China-US relations be broken and move the ties forward?...more

We will counter the US on the principle of power for power and goodwill for goodwill – Kim Yo Jong

Left Review Online August 15, 2021

We will counter the US on the principle of power for power and goodwill for goodwill – Kim Yo Jong

Kathmandu. Kim Yo Jong, vice-department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), challenged to the US for countering it on the principle of power for power and goodwill for goodwill and claimed that decision to steadily build up the capabilities for national defence...more

US bombing Taliban in an attempt to exert control in post-withdrawal era

Qian Feng August 14, 2021

US bombing Taliban in an attempt to exert control in post-withdrawal era

US President Joe Biden has ordered B-52 bombers and Specter gunships to target Taliban positions in Afghanistan. The Taliban are advancing toward key cities, according to Kabul-based Tolo News on Saturday. This embodies the US' deep concern about the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan. Washington is worried that...more

COVID origins tracing must stop being politicized and return to reason and science: Jeffrey Sachs

Left Review Online August 14, 2021

COVID origins tracing must stop being politicized and return to reason and science: Jeffrey Sachs

Editor's Note: The only legitimate goal of the novel coronavirus origins tracing should be "to understand SARS-CoV-2 and work cooperatively together to end the pandemic and to prevent future pandemics," said Jeffrey Sachs, a professor of economics at Columbia University in New York and head of the Lancet COVID-19...more