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PLA’s largest near-Taiwan exercise features bombers to island’s east, ‘blocks foreign interventions’

Liu Xuanzun March 29, 2021

PLA’s largest near-Taiwan exercise features bombers to island’s east, ‘blocks foreign interventions’

The warplane exercise by the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) near the island of Taiwan on Friday is not only the largest since the PLA started routine exercises in the region last year, but also a rare one that saw bombers flying to the eastern side of the...more

Americans’ disgust with own govt grows as Chinese officials criticize US human rights

Chen Shasha March 29, 2021

Americans’ disgust with own govt grows as Chinese officials criticize US human rights

A senior Chinese official's sharp criticism of the US' human rights situation has triggered a negative response from the American people toward the US' human rights and democratic systems, a report based on sentiment analysis by Chinese researchers showed. Experts said that the criticism made by Yang Jiechi,...more

US can’t accept painful fact that China is now its equal: Martin Jacques

Left Review Online March 27, 2021

US can’t accept painful fact that China is now its equal: Martin Jacques

We learnt two things from the China-US high-level dialogue held in Alaska last week. The first was from the session at the beginning when the media were present. This would normally be conducted in a polite and somewhat anodyne fashion dressed up in diplomatic nicety. It could not...more

PLA deploys VR tech for more efficient training

Liu Xuanzun March 27, 2021

PLA deploys VR tech for more efficient training

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has started to use virtual reality (VR) technologies in training as it allows officers and soldiers to gain enhanced combat capability more efficiently, analysts said on Monday. A logistics support unit affiliated with the PLA Northern Theater Command Navy recently held a wartime...more

China finishes ratifying RCEP, member economies inspired to quicken completion of deal

Yang Kunyi March 27, 2021

China finishes ratifying RCEP, member economies inspired to quicken completion of deal

China said on Monday that it is one of the first countries to have completed ratification of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the world's largest free trade zone, planned by 15 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. China's Ministry of Commerce said that the country has completed the...more

Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith

Frederick Engels March 27, 2021

Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith

Question 1: Are you a Communist? Answer: Yes. Question 2: What is the aim of the Communists? Answer: To organise society in such a way that every member of it can develop and use all his capabilities and powers in complete freedom and without thereby infringing the basic...more

Grassroots mobilize to accelerate COVID-19 vaccination, to cover 65% of population by 2021

Liu Caiyu, Leng Shumei and Chen Shasha March 25, 2021

Grassroots mobilize to accelerate COVID-19 vaccination, to cover 65% of population by 2021

Amid concerns of an immunization gap and Western media's doubts about slow inoculation, the Global Times learned that the Chinese disease control and prevention system held a nationwide online meeting on Monday to mobilize the grassroots to accelerate vaccination, with some areas vowing to vaccinate 65 percent of...more

CPC to hold grand ceremony marking 100th founding anniversary, award outstanding members

Left Review Online March 25, 2021

CPC to hold grand ceremony marking 100th founding anniversary, award outstanding members

A grand ceremony will be held to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) where outstanding Party members will be awarded with "July 1 Medals" for the first time, Party officials announced on Tuesday. The grand ceremony, held amid a severe...more

China-Russia cooperation has no upper limits

Left Review Online March 25, 2021

China-Russia cooperation has no upper limits

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Guilin, South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and met with Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday. Lavrov's visit is significant. First, this is the first high-level face-to-face meeting between China and Russia since the pandemic. Second, this...more

China hits back at EU sanctions over Xinjiang affairs, sending strong signal urging foreign countries to stop meddling in its internal affairs

Chen Qingqing, Zhao Yusha and Hu Yuwei March 23, 2021

China hits back at EU sanctions over Xinjiang affairs, sending strong signal urging foreign countries to stop meddling in its internal affairs

Shortly after European Union foreign ministers signed off on a slate of punitive measures on Monday over alleged human rights abuses, including sanctions directed at China, China hit back with tit-for-tat countermeasures by sanctioning 10 individuals and four entities that have spread rumors and lies about Xinjiang. The...more

HK Civil Human Rights Front is disbanding amid probe into sources of funding

Left Review Online March 21, 2021

HK Civil Human Rights Front is disbanding amid probe into sources of funding

Several opposition groups have announced their withdrawal from the Civil Human Rights Front in the past few days after foreign media quoted sources as saying that the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government is investigating whether the Civil Human Rights Front has violated the national security law for...more

Chinese private firm to build space lab by 2025

Deng Xiaoci and Fan Anqi March 20, 2021

Chinese private firm to build space lab by 2025

As China has scheduled 11 launch missions in the next two years for the building of its first space station, a private space technology start-up based in Huzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province has been keeping its pace close to the national program, with an ambitious goal of initiating...more

The Principles of Communism

Frederick Engels March 20, 2021

The Principles of Communism

1. What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. 2. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose...more

US wants Japan, South Korea to become bigger bargaining chips

Left Review Online March 16, 2021

US wants Japan, South Korea to become bigger bargaining chips

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived in Japan on Monday before heading to South Korea on Wednesday. The US will hold the "2+2" diplomatic and security talks with the two countries. The US has been very lofty in stressing the importance of...more

China holds naval drills in three maritime areas amid US military threats

Liu Xuanzun March 16, 2021

China holds naval drills in three maritime areas amid US military threats

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) recently held combat-oriented naval exercises featuring different types of warships in three major sea areas, at a time when the US secretary of defense is rallying allies in the region and attempting to foster "credible deterrence" against China. The PLA Northern, Eastern...more