As India has reportedly launched an information war against China and Pakistan, some Indian think tank has proactively fired false countercharges.
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. The article reflects the author's views and not necessarily those of CGTN.
Some people say the year 2021 is witnessing the world economy obviously walking out of its darkest moment.
They are perhaps right if we look at the numbers. Based on the predictions of multiple agencies, world economic growth is expected to stand at 6 percent this year, with the growth of China, the US, the Euro zone, the UK and emerging economies at 8.1 percent, 7 percent, 4.6 percent, 7 percent and 6.3 percent, respectively.
As the world waits to see the shape of the new Afghan government and whether the Taliban are really prepared to fulfill their commitments to the international community, Afghanistan is rapidly plunging into poverty and starvation. In their wait-and-see stance, the Western countries have cut off access to Afghan government funds and even the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is withholding any major funding to Afghanistan.
As the United States rushed to evacuate people from an Afghanistan that is once again controlled by the Taliban, China has crowed over America’s failure in nearly every conceivable way. A former high-ranking member of the People’s Liberation Army has written a jubilant op-ed. State media have published scathing editorials. Chinese officials have circulated jingoistic tweets and nationalist cartoons.
To mark the 76th victory anniversary of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45), China and Russia - two major contributors to wining WWII - jointly held memorial activities, which analysts said intends to urge Japan to truly reflect on its military mistakes instead of binding itself increasingly tighter with the US and endangering regional peace and stability. This is the latest and vivid example of the highly accordant values and mutual trust shared by China and Russia.
The Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the bombing via Amaq Media, the official Islamic State (ISIS) news agency. The perpetrators, the message says, were members of the ISIS-Khorasan, or ISIS-K.
While one Mozambican tragedy — an insurgency against poverty that has opportunistically taken on the mantle of Islamic State — faces the opposition of SADC troops, another tragedy — the theft of billions of dollars from a desperately poor country — is being settled in courtrooms and backrooms.
"You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep." This saying has been repeatedly come into my mind as the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches.
After the release of the report done by the U.S. intelligence community on COVID-19 origins, Jeffrey Sachs from Columbia University believes the statements of Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo about the "enormous evidence" of the "lab-leak incident" were false. They set this path to be a blame game rather than a true scientific investigation.
The US National Intelligence Council released on August 27 the unclassified summary of the US intelligence agencies’ COVID-19 origin report (IC report). As widely expected, the report found nothing but a repetition of the scientists’ findings thus far: still two hypotheses — infected by animal and lab accident, with the former most likely.
CCTV exposes and criticizes the Eight ‘No.1’ of the US deserves, talking with Wang Wen, Executive Dean of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China, and international scholar Diao Daming, who provides an in-depth analysis of the report--
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. This is the second piece of his series on the economy of Afghanistan.
The Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Thursday released a key publication titled "The CPC: Its Mission and Contributions."
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris just closed her trip to Southeast Asia,her second foreign visit since taking office. Following several high-level engagements with Southeast Asian countries in the past two months – including Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman’s travel to Indonesia, Cambodia and Thailand; Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s visit to Singapore, Vietnam and the Philippines; as well as Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s participation in ASEAN-related ministerial meetings – Harris’ visit is so far the most high-profile demonstration of the United States’ commitment to “stay” in the region.
Fine words will accompany the G7 summit this week. Much will be promised. And little will be delivered. It has long been like this. The G7 is no longer fit for purpose. Comprising the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Canada and Japan, in the 1970s the G7 was the overlord of the global economy. Today, the G7 is but a pale shadow of what it once was, reduced to the role of a declining faction within the global economy. It still talks in grandiose terms about its intentions, but the world has learnt to discount them. It is entirely appropriate that this week's summit will be chaired by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a grandmaster of verbal exaggeration and empty gestures.
The COVID pandemic in the US is rapidly worsening again. This is in striking comparison to China. As this trend develops the dominant sections of the US media are becoming more strident in their attempts to conceal this situation. Looking at both the comparison of the COVID-19 situation situation in the US and China, and US media reactions to this, shows the threat to the US own people, other countries, and to China from US policy and propaganda.
The US is confronted with a historic defeat in Afghanistan at the hands of the Taliban. America's longest war, which began in 2001, is ending in complete humiliation. The Taliban has captured the countryside, every major city and now Kabul has effectively fallen. This is Saigon in 1975 all over again, except the US withdrawal from Vietnam took place in 1972 and its puppet government managed to survive another three years. America's puppet government in Kabul has fallen only four months after the announcement in April that the US would withdraw. It tells us that the Kabul government, and the American occupation, had only a tiny sliver of popular support: The condition for the former's survival was America's troops and airforce. In contrast, the Taliban clearly enjoys considerable backing amongst the people.
What exactly did the terrorist attacks in the US two decades ago bring to the world? The recent withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan is only part of the answer.