The Indian Ministry of External Affairs has said the cancellation of some Belt and Road projects in Pakistan and Nepal is testimony to some unacceptable conditions of the initiative proposed by China.
The recent trade talks between China and the United States ended on February 15 in Beijing. The outcome of this round of negotiations has attracted much attention from the international business community. As expected by most experts, the talk yielded a positive result. And it was announced that further talks will be held soon.
If the Munich Security Conference acts as a barometer to gauge world politics, this year has shown quite contradictory trends: confrontation and cooperation, and unilateralism and multilateralism.
On January 27-31,a delegation led by Du Peng, vice president of Renmin University of China (RUC), visited Mumbai and New Delhi, India. The delegation attended the second China-India Population Ageing Forum, and visited Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Somaiya Vidyavihar, Delhi University, and Jawaharlal Nehru University .
U.S. President Donald Trump plans to declare a national emergency to find the extra funds needed to build his long-promised "Mexico Border Wall," which, as American media is predicting, creates the prospect of a new court battle.
Well-known Turkish writer Ferit Orhan Pamuk used the word hüzün to express the melancholy of modern Turkey. He used it to indicate the pain and sorrow over a loss.
U.S. President Donald Trump's second formal State of the Union address took place on February 5. As American media noted, this speech was delayed by two weeks amid the longest government shutdown in history and it took place as the president and Congress were trying to find a solution to avert another shutdown on February 15.
The new round of high-level economic and trade consultations between China and the United States started in Beijing on Thursday morning against a background whereby the world, and the U.S., now has a more accurate understanding of the consequences of a "trade war".
Editor’s notes: With China-U.S. trade talks underway at the White House on January 30-31,2019, William Jones, Washington Bureau Chief for the Executive Intelligence Review, and Non-resident Senior Fellow of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China, was interviewed by LaRouchePAC Website, discussing the urgent need for a commitment to “win-win” relations between the United States and China, and the necessity of debunking the myths that Americans are being told about China and its commitment to science and technological progress. The following is an excerpt text of the interview.
It was reported that recently the Indian Navy has commissioned a new full-fledged naval base, Indian naval air station, in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The new base, according to Indian military officials and experts, would be used to increase surveillance on Chinese navy vessels and submarines entering the Indian Ocean through the Malacca Straits.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's visit to China last week came amid speculation that Beijing is seeking to build a naval base off the Cambodian coast, claims the prime minister has denied.
When Britain voted in the 2016 Brexit referendum, there were many in Chinese media who naively thought, “Well, that is a democratic decision. Britain will leave the EU.” However, critical issues in the West, as in other societies, are not decided by formal democratic processes but by power and money and the clash of powerful social forces. Therefore, the referendum did not resolve issues but unleashed the deepest British political crisis since World War II.
At the invitation of Philippe Étienne, Diplomatic Adviser to the President of the French Republic and Enzo Moavero Milanesi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Italian Republic, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi traveled to France to attend the 18th session of the consultation of the coordinators for the China-France Strategic Dialogue, and visited Italy for the 9th Joint Meeting of China-Italy Government Committee from January 23 to 26.
Forty years after then U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ended three decades of estrangement between the United States and the People’s Republic of China in January 1979, the Carter Center convened a three-day symposium on U.S.-China relations from January 17 to 19, 2019.
In response to a question asked by a student at a meeting with locals in Kalay Township in Sagaing Region on January 22, Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi said an administration shouldn't terminate foreign-invested projects approved by its predecessor. If the government breaks a promise made by its predecessor, the country will lose its credibility and "no businessperson would want to invest in this country,"she said.
National Bureau of Statistics has announced the economic figures of China in 2018. According to preliminary calculations, the annual gross domestic product was 900,309 billion yuan, an increase of 6.6 percent over the previous year. In terms of industries, the added value of the primary industry was 64,734 billion yuan, an increase of 3.5 percent over the previous year; the added value of the secondary industry was 366,001 billion yuan, an increase of 5.8 percent; the added value of the tertiary industry was 469,575 billion yuan, an increase of 7.6 percent.
From the Brexit referendum of 2016 to the US general elections the same year, and from the recent “Yellow Vest” protest in France to the forming of rightwing and leftwing governments in Europe and Latin America, the systemic crisis of capitalism has made its way from North America to Europe and other parts of the world. No one knows how long the crisis is going to last and how extensive or profound its impact will be to the political and economic order of the world. This is what people often call “the world of enormous uncertainty”. This is what President Xi Jinping has reminded us time and again that “our world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century”. So, what is the origin of this crisis? And how deeply will it affect China-US relations?
Relations between China and the US have experienced bad times and good times over the several decades. The two countries, overall, have been living in peace with each other with only occasional small spats. The stable development of US-China relations has been the main reason that world economy is gaining momentum. Without it, there would be no stable globalization nor the last 40 years of prosperity for the world.
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), which is starting this week in Davos, is creating significant expectations. In the past, WEF meetings have identified, with remarkable weight and clarity, both the fundamental problems of the world and the urgent tasks of our time. This has helped policymakers in designing their decisions. The speech of China’s Vice-President Wang Qishan, scheduled Wednesday, Jan 23, is eagerly awaited.
Things for Peng Jindong's small e-store, which mainly sells street-dance wear on the leading Chinese online marketplace Taobao, first took off when he obtained a non-collateral credit line of 1 million yuan ($148,000) a few years ago from Zhejiang E-commerce Bank Co Ltd, one of the first five private banks established in China as pioneers of a pilot program.