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US half-hearted virus report shows declining political significance of issue: Scholars

Left Review Online September 9, 2021

US half-hearted virus report shows declining political significance of issue: Scholars

Editor's Note: The 90-day investigation into COVID-19 origins that US President Joe Biden has ordered the US intelligence agencies to conduct has come to a farcical end. Now that the Biden administration hasn't got its desirable results from the report, what will be its next moves to make...more

The DPRK: How Does the World See This Country?

Left Review Online September 9, 2021

The DPRK: How Does the World See This Country?

September 9 this year marks the 73rd founding anniversary of the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea. Over the past seven decades of its development, the country has demonstrated its dignity and honour, overcoming all sorts of challenges and difficulties. We look back on its history through the names...more

Chinese leader of WHO-China joint expert team says 2nd-stage probe should focus on earlier suspected cases around the world

Cao Siqi and Chen Qingqing September 8, 2021

Chinese leader of WHO-China joint expert team says 2nd-stage probe should focus on earlier suspected cases around the world

Editor's note: Three months after US President Joe Biden requested a more in-depth review of the origins of novel coronavirus, the US intelligence community released an unclassified report, which showed that the community was split on the origins and offered no conclusive answers. During the past three months,...more

Kim Il Sung and Non-aligned Movement

Left Review Online September 5, 2021

Kim Il Sung and Non-aligned Movement

Sixty years have elapsed since the Non-aligned Movement made its official appearance on the international arena. The First Summit Conference of the Non-aligned Nations was held in September 1961 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, with the participation of representatives of 25 official member states and three observer states, signaling the...more

More early COVID-19 cases of humans, animals need to be tested for virus origins tracing

Left Review Online September 1, 2021

More early COVID-19 cases of humans, animals need to be tested for virus origins tracing

While the World Health Organization (WHO) is planning its next phase of COVID-19 origins study, China has made it clear that the next-phase study should be carried out in multiple places worldwide, including places outside China where samples of human and animal before the Wuhan outbreak were tested...more

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