The Joe Biden administration has really gone off the rails in its latest human rights report, giving the official imprimatur to labeling Chinese policy in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region "genocide." While this outlandish claim was made by the now discredited anti-China hawk Mike Pompeo, it has now been officially adopted by the "liberal" Biden administration, and solely based on unfounded rumors spread by the right-wing networks of German Adrian Zenz.
Can foreigners in China enjoy sufficient financial services? Yiwu, an export-oriented city in East China's Zhejiang Province, has made the country's first move to issue foreign merchant cards that provide foreigners with financial services to facilitate their online shopping, consumption as well as finance and investment needs.
On March 30, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi concluded a week-long trip to nations in the Middle East. He visited Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman, and Iran.
China-based technology company ByteDance, following its video-sharing platform TikTok being banned last June, has reportedly encountered a new round of crackdown in India, with at least two of its bank accounts being blocked for alleged tax evasion.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Dr. Henry Kissinger’s secret visit to China. In July 1971, Kissinger, as national security adviser to U.S. President Richard Nixon, held several rounds of talks with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai in Beijing. The Chinese and U.S. sides addressed such thorny issues as Taiwan in a manner that was candid and full of wisdom. Kissinger’s visit paved the way for Nixon’s February 1972 China visit and the subsequent normalization of relations between China and the United States.
The amended Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralisation (CMIM) agreement comes into effect on Wednesday, which institutionalizes the use of members' local currencies while raising the IMF De-linked Portion to 40 percent.
During his first news conference as president on March 25, Biden called China-US relations "a battle between the utility of democracies in the 21st century and autocracies." He then told reporters, "We've got to prove democracy works."
Chen Zhou had a video call with Danilo Turk, former President of Slovenia and member of the International Advisory Committee of the "Belt and Road"(BRI) Think Tank Cooperation Alliance.
In her first interview since Senate confirmation, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai revealed the Biden administration's reluctance to drop tariffs yet its receptiveness to negotiations with China, sending a mixed message about the prospect of bilateral talks after barbs were traded at the high-level strategic dialogue in Alaska.
I once asked Dr. Henry Kissinger whether he had seen any Marxist classics in late Chairman Mao’s personal library, since Mao had received him there multiple times. His answer was probably not. There were all kinds of thread-stitched books, all Chinese classics.
The top US securities regulator recently adopted a politicized measure which widely believed to be a move targeting Chinese firms listing on the US stock market. As the nation signals no intention to redress its hegemonic approaches to confront China in near term, it might be time for some Chinese firms to ditch the politicized American financial market, returning back home or seeking new financial cooperation outside of the imperious US.
Hate crimes against Asian Americans on the US soil are becoming more commonplace. These racially discriminatory crimes are the consequence of prevailing far-right wing politics in the US. The far-right was born out of conservatism. It views liberalism and the left-wing political thought and forces as opponents. It also objects to moderate figures of mainstream conservatism.
On March 20th, at the invitation of the Vietnamese Embassy to China, Wang Wen, Executive Dean of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China(RDCY), Deputy Dean and Professor of Silk Road School, also a Researcher of the Financial Research Center of the Counsellor Office of the State Council, joined forces with Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, The Philippines, Malaysia, Myanmar, Brunei, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and other ten ASEAN ambassadors to China and senior diplomats to interpret China’s 14th Five-Year Plan and hot issues at home and abroad, and had about three hours of in-depth exchanges. The event was hosted by the Vietnamese ambassador to China, H.E. Mr. Pham Sao Mai.
Scholars from China and the U.S. expounded their views on bilateral relations from different perspectives at a webinar on March 12. They agreed that the two sides should be committed to benign and healthy competition, and there is potential for the two countries to work jointly in many areas and improve global governance.
Uzbekistan, one of the world's leading cotton exporters, sent a high-level delegation earlier this week to the Chinese-invested Gwadar Port in Pakistan to look for logistics opportunities that might help it export its cotton, the Global Times has learned.
Danilo Turk, former president of Slovenia, believes that Sino-U.S. ties need "calm" to prosper, and U.S.-led alliances shouldn't threaten world security.
Beijing has accused the U.S. of perpetuating a Cold War mentality as President Joe Biden and senior administration officials shore up alliances in the Pacific region to counter China’s growing influence and increasingly describe the country as a geopolitical threat.
When Elaine Chao was nominated as Secretary of Labor by then US president George W. Bush around noon on January 11, 2001, she only had two hours to prepare for a speech. She changed clothes and called her husband and her father. At the same time, she thought of what to speak. Then she appeared on TV and mentioned her experience when she first landed on the US.