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The New York Times: Rejecting Covid Inquiry, China Peddles Conspiracy Theories Blaming the U.S.
When a conspiracy theory started circulating in China suggesting that the coronavirus escaped from an American military lab, it had largely stayed on the fringe. Now, the ruling Communist Party has propelled the idea firmly into the mainstream.
2021-08-26 -
Liu Zongyi: China to offer 'genuine' aid in Afghanistan's economic reconstruction amid chaotic transition
As Taliban take steps to stabilize the situation and pursue international recognition, Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and private firms are employing different investment strategies in the war-torn country, with the former exercising extreme caution in carrying out new projects and the latter eager to tap into a market where "a thousand things wait to be done."
2021-08-26 -
Liu Zongyi: Why China is best positioned to help Afghanistan reconstruction
While the shock over the US' astonishing failure in Afghanistan continues, global attention has been shifting to the newly empowered Taliban's plan to rebuild the country from the ruins left behind by the US military invasion, with Taliban officials vowing to start rebuilding the country. Considering all the profound uncertainty and difficulties the country faces, China has emerged as arguably the best partner that could help the country's reconstruction endeavors going forward.
2021-08-26 -
Chen Dingding: Can America’s Withdrawal From Afghanistan Help Its China Strategy?
U.S. President Joe Biden has been severely criticized from all fronts in recent weeks as the United States’ supposedly peaceful and orderly withdrawal from Afghanistan turned into a classic fiasco in front of the whole world. As a consequence, Biden’s approval rating has dropped to its lowest level since his inauguration, with increasing numbers of both Democrats and Republications disapproving of his handling of the Afghanistan situation. Internationally, Biden has not received much support from the publics in many U.S. allies either. For example, half of Britons believe that Biden’s decision to pull out of Afghanistan is wrong. U.S. allies and partners in Asia have expressed similar concerns as to the U.S. commitment to the region, particularly as China’s influence is rapidly increasing.
2021-08-25 -
Vijay Prasad&John Ross: China and the US offer competing visions for Ecuador’s debt
With the arrival of Guillermo Lasso to the presidency of Ecuador in May, the South American country is seeking to open up the economy to attract investors and turn black the red numbers inherited from past governments.
2021-08-25 -
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
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