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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

Some 2019 EVALI patients in the US may have been infected with COVID-19: Sources

GT staff reporters August 11, 2021

Some 2019 EVALI patients in the US may have been infected with COVID-19: Sources

It's possible that some of the patients of the mysterious vaping-related lung disease that swept through all of the 50 US states in 2019 were actually COVID-19 patients, according to a group of Chinese scientists and radiologists after reviewing some 250 chest CT scans from published papers. These...more

Internal US politics drives country’s conflict, not COVID-19 or China: Carsten Boyer Thøgersen

Yu Jincui and Lu Yuanzhi August 11, 2021

Internal US politics drives country’s conflict, not COVID-19 or China: Carsten Boyer Thøgersen

Editor's Note: "No alternative to the CPC in terms of people or a party with a program and a vision is known of inside or outside China," said Carsten Boyer Thøgersen (Thøgersen), a former diplomat with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and the European Commission. How...more

There should be an international investigation into why the West failed so disastrously: Martin Jacques

Martin Jacques August 8, 2021

There should be an international investigation into why the West failed so disastrously: Martin Jacques

COVID-19 arrived three years after the anti-China crusade began. From the outset the virus was infused with Cold War politics. Imagine if the first case of COVID-19 had occurred at the end of 2012 rather than the end of 2019. Many things would have been the same, but...more

China, Russia joint military exercise to combat terrorism and chaos left by US

Song Zhongping August 8, 2021

China, Russia joint military exercise to combat terrorism and chaos left by US

Russia is set to join a military exercise with China in the Qingtongxia Joint Tactical Training Base in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region from August 9 to 13. According to Senior Colonel Wu Qian, spokesperson for China's Ministry of National Defense, the theme of this upcoming military...more

US courting SE Asia visits doesn’t ease regional tensions

Ge Hongliang August 7, 2021

US courting SE Asia visits doesn’t ease regional tensions

After US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman paid a visit to Indonesia, Cambodia and Thailand in late May and June, Southeast Asia is now witnessing a "comeback" of the US. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken attended the Special ASEAN-US Foreign Ministers' Meeting via video on July...more

Chinese vaccines can protect people against the Delta variant, serious illness: top epidemiologist

Left Review Online August 7, 2021

Chinese vaccines can protect people against the Delta variant, serious illness: top epidemiologist

China's top epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan said that China needs to vaccinate about 83 percent of its population to achieve herd immunity. He also revealed that all the 13 severe cases infected with the Delta variant in Guangzhou COVID-19 outbreak in May did not get inoculated. Zhong made the...more

China, India border meeting creates further optimism

Guo Yuandan and Liu Xuanzun August 7, 2021

China, India border meeting creates further optimism

China and India have wrapped up the 12th round of corps commander level meeting, in which the two sides constructively discussed the resolution of remaining areas related to disengagement along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Western Sector of border areas, the Chinese Defense Ministry announced...more

China elaborates bottom lines, suggests remedial measures ‘Candid’, intense interaction helps two countries stay in touch

Chen Qingqing and Fan Anqi August 6, 2021

China elaborates bottom lines, suggests remedial measures ‘Candid’, intense interaction helps two countries stay in touch

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi elaborated China's three bottom lines in effectively managing and controlling divergences in China-US relations — the US should not challenge, smear or seek to subvert the Chinese path and system, should not seek to interrupt or disrupt China's development, should...more

How China lends: truth and reality

Huang Meibo and Niu Dongfang August 6, 2021

How China lends: truth and reality

In March 2021, Georgetown Law, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, AidData, Center for Global Development and Kiel Institute for the World Economy of Germany jointly issued a report titled "How China Lends: A Rare Look into 100 Debt Contracts with Foreign Governments". Through a comparison of 100...more