It's a tradition in the US that ex-presidents don't criticize a successor. It's rare for a predecessor to rebuke an incumbent president. But former president Barack Obama has violated the code of silence, criticizing Donald Trump for mishandling the novel coronavirus epidemic repeatedly. After the former president harshly...more

Beijing. China published sweeping guidelines to improve the country's "socialist market economy," which include instructions for accelerating market reform and opening-up as well as refining national security reviews and setting up an "unreliable entity list", to better supervise foreign companies' investment in the country. The guidelines, released Monday...more

As more than 5,000 Chinese lawmakers and political advisors from across the country start to arrive in Beijing for the annual legislative and political consultative meetings, or the two sessions as the events are generally termed, what awaits them is a seemingly impossible task: Prescribing the right cure...more

China prioritized human rights amid the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring people’s lives and health in a people-centric approach, and therefore achieved the results of quickly taking the epidemic under control, experts stressed in an international conference entitled “ Guarantee of the Right to Life in Epidemic Prevention and Control...more

All three major production networks in the world - East Asia, North America and Europe - have encountered economic fallout from the deadly COVID-19. Regions more deeply involved in globalization with more complex technique requirements and closer international divisions of labor are being hit harder by the virus....more

Beijing. Both cargo and passenger transportation in China's aviation sector plunged over 60 percent year-on-year in April as the global COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage, though the decline narrowed with Chinese economic and social activities on a recovery trajectory, official data showed on Wednesday. The country's aviation industry...more

Argentina is near a new default of "its" debt. It is "its" debt because the debt cycles in Argentina - like in most of the developing countries - are always a complex process of facts in which injustice are most of the time the rule. In the enormous...more

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security warned that Chinese hackers were attempting to steal novel coronavirus data on treatments and vaccines from the US, the Voice of America (VOA) reported on Wednesday. "The two organizations gave no examples to support the allegation,"...more

The White House on Monday ordered all West Wing staff to wear masks at work, except when they are sitting at their own desks, according to New York Times. US President Donald Trump has previously politicized masks, even suggesting to the public at one point they weren't necessary....more

I welcome the criticism of my call for China to expand the number of its nuclear warheads. Here is my response to those criticisms. First, to advocate that China increase the number of nuclear weapons is itself anti-peace. Some people holding this view are idealistic and have a...more

[In his article "The end of the US-China relationship," Stephen S. Roach, a faculty member at Yale University and former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, describes new shifts in the China-US relationship amid the COVID-19 pandemic. He wrote, "After 48 years of painstaking progress, a major rupture of...more

We, civil society organizations, grassroots groups and advocates for the welfare of marginalized sectors, call for the revocation of the 2019 Strategic Partnership between the United Nations (UN) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) and its implications for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We express our grave...more

Kathmandu. Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Saturday sent a message of greeting to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of the Russian Federation on May 9, 2020. In his message, Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un extended his...more

Comrades, The Fifth Plenary Meeting of the Seventh Central Committee and the enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, both held recently, made an analysis of the situations facing our revolution and put forward correct fighting modes, tasks and...more

The Trump administration's intent to unseat China as the mainstay of global supply chains may be just pie in the sky, observers said, noting that China ought to open its economy even further while driving indigenous innovation to propel growth. The Trump administration is pushing to rip global...more