Opinion

Politicizing virus origins tracing reflects US’ political inferiority complex: Alexey Mukhin, Russian scholar

Xia Wenxin September 1, 2021

Politicizing virus origins tracing reflects US’ political inferiority complex: Alexey Mukhin, Russian scholar

Editor's Note: The 90th day since US President Joe Biden ordered US intelligence in May to investigate the origins of COVID-19, including the "lab leak" theory that the US administration has been using to smear and attack China, is approaching. It is clear that the US has once again...more

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

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

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

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

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

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

How should China improve its intl communication capacity?

Prof. Zhang Weiwei August 1, 2021

How should China improve its intl communication capacity?

Editor's Note: China has been put in an awkward situation. The more successful it becomes, the more it faces criticism from the West based on lies and ideological bias. How can China build an equally powerful voice to match its national strength and international status? How should people view...more

The Great Heroic Spirit of the Victorious Wartime Generation Will Be Brilliantly Carried Forward – Marshal Kim Jong Un

Left Review Online July 28, 2021

The Great Heroic Spirit of the Victorious Wartime Generation Will Be Brilliantly Carried Forward – Marshal Kim Jong Un

Esteemed comrade war veterans, As I am seeing you again, an elder generation of our revolution whom we always respect and regard as our role models, and celebrating the great Victory Day for our motherland with you, I cannot suppress the surging happiness and emotion. The history of...more

China’s trajectory proof that it needs no lecturing

James Smith July 27, 2021

China’s trajectory proof that it needs no lecturing

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC). From a small gathering in Shanghai, to a political juggernaut with 95 million members, the CPC has transformed China dramatically over a journey of a century, attaining power in 1949 and creating...more

Nepal values CPC’s enduring lessons: Hon. Krishna Bahadur Mahara

Hu Yuwei July 25, 2021

Nepal values CPC’s enduring lessons: Hon. Krishna Bahadur Mahara

Editor's Note: China's ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) just celebrated its centennial on July 1. With its success in leading China from a poor country into a globally strong state, what can China's neighboring countries learn from the CPC's experience? Krishna Bahadur Mahara (Mahara), former speaker of the...more

China scores well in ‘big exam’ of building Xiakoang under CPC’s spirit of setting, completing bold goals

Left Review Online July 25, 2021

China scores well in ‘big exam’ of building Xiakoang under CPC’s spirit of setting, completing bold goals

Editor's Note: China on July 1 declared that it has reached its first centenary milestone development goal – building a moderately prosperous society, or xiaokang, in all respects and is marching in confident strides toward the second centennial goal of building China into a great modern socialist country....more