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Djoomart Otorbaev: An essential step towards future energy
Editor's note: Djoomart Otorbaev is the former prime minister of the Kyrgyz Republic, a distinguished professor of the Belt and Road School of Beijing Normal University and a member of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center. The article reflects the author's views and not necessarily those of CGTN.
2021-08-25 -
John Ross: World mobilises against the US on Cuba – including China
The US has just suffered a significant defeat in Afghanistan – weakening its position in central Asia. A second region where the US is engaged in a serious foreign policy struggle is in Latin America – where there has been a new rise of forces pursuing a path of national independence instead of subordination to the US. The immediate focus in this struggle has become the US economic attack on Cuba. But because, on Cuba, the US is going against the positions of the overwhelming majority of countries in the world, against the great majority of the Cuban people, and in violation of the US’s own declared goals in terms of the global order, these is serious risk to the US that it will also suffer a significant foreign policy defeat on this issue. This therefore makes it important to carefully analyse the unfolding of the situation around Cuba.
2021-08-24 -
Djoomart Otorbaev: Partial closure of Ningbo port: A butterfly effect?
Editor's note: Djoomart Otorbaev is the former prime minister of the Kyrgyz Republic, a distinguished professor of the Belt and Road School of Beijing Normal University, and a member of Nizami Ganjavi International Center.
2021-08-24 -
Jeffrey Sachs: The G7, the UN, and Afghanistan's Future
When G7 leaders convene this week to discuss Afghanistan, they should be clear about the core goals: extricate their nationals and Afghan partners, and then work constructively with China, Russia, and other interested parties to end the country's 40-year downward spiral. Enough of destruction; it is time to build.
2021-08-24 -
Liu zhiqin on CRI Radio: China's Economy
Liu Zhiqin, senior fellow at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at the Renmin University of China(RDCY), was interviewed by CRI every Friday, discussing about China's economy.
2021-08-23 -
Helga Zepp-LaRouche: Afghanistan: Bright future for the coming cooperation of great powers
Editor's note: Afghanistan, a country that has suffered decades of war, is trying to rebuild itself from the ruins. Reconstruction will take concerted efforts from within the country as well as from the international community. Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and president of the International Schiller Institute, shares her thoughts on the possibilities for future cooperation of great powers in Afghanistan. The opinions expressed in the video are her own and not necessarily the views of CGTN.
2021-08-23 -
Jeffrey Sachs: From Vietnam to Afghanistan, history always repeats itself
From Vietnam to Afghanistan, from Iraq to Syria... the U.S. sent its troops overseas time and again, yet almost every time it failed to change the other country for the better but left it in despair and turmoil. History always repeats itself, but why doesn't the U.S. learn from it? What is driving the U.S. behind all of these?
2021-08-23 -
Jeffrey D. Sachs: Blood in the sand
The magnitude of the United States' failure in Afghanistan is breathtaking. It is not a failure of Democrats or Republicans, but an abiding failure of American political culture, reflected in U.S. policymakers' lack of interest in understanding different societies. And it is all too typical.
2021-08-20 -
Liu Zongyi: India eyes bigger influence in Indian Ocean through Colombo Security Conclave
India's attempts to revive the Colombo Security Conclave have garnered media attention. On Tuesday, the South China Morning Post argued that the revival of a trilateral grouping between India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, shows New Delhi's wariness of Beijing's growing influence in the Indian Ocean region.
2021-08-20 -
Djoomart Otorbaev: Friends of the Taliban?
With the Taliban back in charge, the outlook for the country – and especially for its minorities, women, and girls – depends crucially on which elements of the Taliban prove dominant. That is why it is essential for Afghanistan's friends and neighbors to identify and support the group's more moderate leaders.
2021-08-20 -
William Jones: Afghanistan shock – no room for an 'alliance of democracies'?
The rapidity with which the Taliban retook Afghanistan came as a shock to the world. The fact that the Taliban would again re-emerge, probably as the dominant force in Afghanistan, was fairly clear at the point that President Joe Biden set the date for the pullout of the U.S. troops. For the U.S., Afghanistan was the longest experiment in the history of its elusive endeavor of "democracy building" – and it failed miserably.
2021-08-19 -
Ding Gang: Taliban victory a major failure of Western civilization’s expansion
The victory of the Afghan Taliban is a major failure of Western civilization that started with its expansion 500 years ago. Even though the West will not stop expanding, the Taliban's counterattack will probably lead to a shock wave of Islam.
2021-08-19 -
Zhou Rong: Fertilizer transit trade from Pakistan’s Gwadar Port to Afghanistan undisturbed by war
Even as battle raged across Afghanistan last week, Pakistan’s Gwadar Port, now operated by a Chinese company, continued to ship fertilizers to the landlocked country, the Global Times learned.
2021-08-19 -
Vijay Prashad: The Return of the Taliban 20 Years Later
On August 15, the Taliban arrived in Kabul. The Taliban’s leadership entered the presidential palace, which Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had vacated when he fled into exile abroad hours before. The country’s borders shut down and Kabul’s main international airport lay silent, except for the cries of those Afghans who had worked for the U.S. and NATO; they knew that their lives would now be at serious risk. The Taliban’s leadership, meanwhile, tried to reassure the public of a “peaceful transition” by saying in several statements that they would not seek retribution, but would go after corruption and lawlessness.
2021-08-18 -
Wang Wen: Politicians lambasted for response to virus
Political partisanship, disregard for science and inadequate responses have contributed to the failure by the United States to contain COVID-19, experts say, as a new wave of infections sweeps the country.
2021-08-18 -
Wang Wen: Striving for breaking US discourse hegemony
The Chinese think tanks' report - "America Ranked First?!: The Truth about America's fight against COVIID-19" - has been viewed at least 500 million times. The report named the US as the world's No. 1 anti-pandemic failure, No. 1 political-blaming country, No. 1 pandemic spreader, No. 1 politically-divisive country, No. 1 currency-abusing country, No. 1 turbulent country during the pandemic, No. 1 disinformation country and No. 1 country advocating for origin tracing terrorism. It was widely quoted in media reports. Newsweek reached out to the White House on August 9 for a response to the Chinese academic report, but did not hear back in time for publication.
2021-08-18 -
John Ross: Foreign politicians, scholars hail Xinjiang's anti-terrorism efforts
Foreign politicians and scholars have spoken highly of anti-terrorism and de-radicalization measures in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and called for deepening cooperation in the area to tackle future challenges.
2021-08-18 -
William Jones: No geopolitical room in the global fight against COVID-19
With the discovery at the beginning of 2020 that the world was facing a new and deadly virus, this should have been the time - and the opportunity - for the world to mobilize as one to ward off what could have become a deadly threat to humanity. We were not unacquainted with the danger of such a development. The SARS epidemic in 2002, and even the outbreak of AIDS in the 1980s, should have taught the world a lesson, namely that viruses would represent ongoing threats to humanity and that the world community should create the type of institutions that could effectively deal with such a threat. While the WHO has, to some extent, served that function, the extent of the present crisis has clearly shown that much more has got to be done to strengthen the global health system.
2021-08-16 -
Yury Tavrovsky: 'Political virus' is as harmful as coronavirus
The U.S. is redoubling efforts in the investigation into the origins of the coronavirus even though the Delta variant is wreaking havoc around the world. Yury Tavrovsky, a Russian political commentator and Sinologist, was invited to discuss the impact of the fast-spreading variant and the equally harmful "political virus," and to explain U.S. President Joe Biden's politics behind the probe.
2021-08-16 -
Kevin Rudd: Why the Quad Alarms China
When former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe invited officials from Australia, India, and the United States to meet in Manila in November 2017, Chinese leaders saw little reason to worry. This gathering of “the Quad,” as the grouping was known, was merely “a headline-grabbing idea,” scoffed Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. “They are like the sea foam in the Pacific or Indian Ocean: they get some attention but will soon dissipate.” Beijing had some reason for such dismissiveness. The interests of the Quad’s members were, Chinese strategists assessed, too divergent to allow for real coherence. Anyway, the Quad grouping had already been tried more than a decade earlier, with little in the way of real results.
2021-08-13
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