The White House unveiled its new National Security Strategy on Monday, allowing the world to better familiarize themselves with the Trump Doctrine. In a document defined by the core concepts of competition and rivalry, the Trump administration advocates what it calls an "America First National Security Strategy."
US President Donald Trump issued his new national security strategy on Monday, in which he reiterated that China will become the major "competitor" of the US in the years to come.
The year 2017 is coming to an end amid a couple of economic shocks. With the Conference Committee of the US Congress passing the bill for the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 on Dec 15, worries are mounting across the world on its possible ramifications, including global tax competition, capital flows into the United States, possible shift of manufacturing investment back to the US, and the rise of the dollar against other currencies, especially the renminbi.
UN political affairs chief Jeffrey Feltman concluded a rare four-day visit to Pyongyang at the latter`s invitation earlier this month. This was the first visit by a highest-ranking UN official to the country since 2010. Then last week, North Korea`s Permanent Representative to the UN Ja Song-nam talked with Feltman again.
To achieve the fastest sustained growth in a major economy in human history, China has already had to pass through decisive tests of the superiority of its economic thinking. China`s success was necessarily not merely practical but theoretical because its policies were carried out in clear opposition to dominant orthodox Western economic theory, and with China putting forward its own economic concepts.
John Ross, senior fellow with the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China, speaks at the Seventh World Forum on China Studies in Shanghai on Dec. 10, 2017.
It seems North Korea still insists that the US and the whole international community acknowledge its position as a nuclear state. To promote and consolidate its capacity for war with the US, North Korea will likely continue with nuclear and missile tests.
Singapore`s Channel NewsAsia recently aired a documentary titled Bridging Giants, which recounts the development of China`s cooperation with Southeast Asian nations.
A US tax reform bill in Congress has drawn international attention, and US President Donald Trump has made a major stride toward the goal of tax reform. As the largest economy in the world, any adjustment in US domestic economic policy will definitely have a strong impact on the rest of the world.
What China offers is a revolutionary step and can be a great contribution to the current world order. This new era brings new ideas, provides new philosophies for development and new concepts for the “common shared future of mankind.”
South Korea is seeking to work together with China so as to avoid a further escalation of the tensions which might lead to a hot war. It is still possible to draw North Korea back to the path of dialogue and negotiation.
The speech presented a clear framework for foreign policy and was intellectually profound while it also explained why such a wide range of opinion was represented at the conference.
From the current cooperative projects promoted by China, most focus on building infrastructure, such as highways, railways, water conservancy projects and electric power engineering. These projects will form a solid foundation for local economic development.
Bilateral relations between China and Nepal have developed well, regardless of which party is in power in Nepal. Nepal`s openness to foreign direct investment (FDI) is high. It held an investment summit in March this year, and in May, Nepal and China sighed a framework agreement on China`s Belt and Road (B&R) initiative.
In recent years, owing to the Belt and Road (B&R) initiative and 10 major programs announced by China in 2015 to boost China-Africa cooperation, sub-Saharan Africa has become a hot investment destination for Chinese businessmen.
International Forum on the Belt and Road Port Cities will be held in Tianjin on December 5-8.
A number of Chinese peer-to-peer (P2P) lending companies went public in the US this year. As they go public overseas, it creates potential risks that may eventually affect China`s financial stability. Supervision is needed to bring the P2P lending sector in order.
The Sino-US relationship is still the most important one between major powers in the 21st century. Other nations admit this basic fact, but they do not want their fate to be decided by them. They choose to work together to impact the Sino-US relationship and get ready for the possible problems in the relationship.
Today`s China is committed to socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era and is a leading developing and emerging country. So while making efforts to realize the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation, China will "keep in mind both our internal and international imperatives" and pursue common prosperity at home and sustainable development globally.
US President Donald Trump`s visit to China last week marked a new historic starting point of China-US relations, said He Yafei, former Chinese vice-foreign minister, who proposed new ideas on how to improve China-US relations in the emerging global order, at a forum held at New York University on Monday.