I will soon pay a state visit to Nepal, a friendly neighbor of China, at the invitation of President Bidya Devi Bhandari. The visit will be my first, yet the country is no strange place to me. I have long wanted to come to Nepal and see for...more

The Indo-Pacific strategy proposed by the US is not suitable to Nepal. In anticipation of Chinese President Xi Jinping's upcoming visit to Nepal, The Diplomat magazine published an article saying Kathmandu is caught between the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the US Indo-Pacific strategy. But that...more

Beijing. US President Donald Trump briefly dropped by the UN Climate Action Summit in New York on Monday. As leaders from around the world were discussing the grim situation of climate change, Trump hurried off to attend the Global Call to Protect Religious Freedom event. He stayed at...more

Today is September 11. Many US media are reflecting on the country's counter-terrorism war, as well as on the advantages and disadvantages of current US foreign policy. Generally, such a review is good. From the US standpoint, the counter-terror war has been effective. It has overthrown or contained...more

Beijing. China announced guidelines to strengthen the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in rural economic construction through deepening agricultural supply-side structural reform, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Sunday. The Party is expected to play a vital role in consolidating the basic position of the...more

Young, angry, anti-establishment, and violent. How can they be defined? Rioters or heroes? It depends on what they oppose. If they are against Western mainstream society, they are villains. But if they are against non-Western authority, their actions would perfectly fit a pro-democracy narrative, all too often exploited...more

Four decades ago, a small fishing village started groundbreaking reform and opening-up policies that changed the fate of China. Today, Shenzhen in South China's Guangdong Province is a technology powerhouse that's being asked once again to lead the country into a new era of high-quality growth. But beyond...more

Top diplomats of China, Japan and South Korea are scheduled to meet on Wednesday in Beijing as the Tokyo-Seoul trade dispute adds uncertainty to the regional economy. China is unlikely to take sides in the Japan-South Korea trade dispute. East Asia's economic picture has grown increasingly complex, but...more

"Now Sloppy Steve has been dumped like a dog by almost everyone. Too bad!" This is how US President Donald Trump mocked his fired White House chief strategist Steve Bannon in a tweet on January 6, 2018. It is hard to believe that this "dumped dog" was one...more

Beijing. Fernando González, president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), is no doubt the best person to talk about the relations between Cuba and its old foe, the US. This is because González has another better known identity: a member of the Cuban Five....more

My recent visit to Malaysia came eight years after my first trip to the country. As the car approached the Petronas Twin Towers, the landmark of Kuala Lumpur, I saw a billboard of China Construction Bank (CCB). On the second day, as I was wandering in the city,...more

If India blocks Chinese telecom giant Huawei from doing business in the country, it can only be seen as a signal by New Delhi that it's taking sides in China-US trade rivalry. "On the issue of Chinese enterprises participating in the construction of India's 5G, we hope the...more

Urumqi (China). Government officials, scholars and religion experts from Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region defended the country's counter-terrorism and de-radicalization policies in the region against groundless accusations from the US and other Western countries. China's State Council Information Office (SCIO) released a white paper on Sunday to...more

Mr. Chairman, Comrade Fernando Gonzales, Comrade Iraklis from World Peace , Distinguished leaders in the Dias, Delegates from Asia Pacific region and other continents; It gives me immense pleasure to be here today to observe opening of the 9th Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Solidarity with Cuba. I...more

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was proposed by China in 2013. Not long after the inception of the initiative, the Nepali government made a full commitment to join. An all-party consensus exists where Nepal should reap the benefits of the BRI to meet domestic development and prosperity...more