A task force of seven ministries,including the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC),the public security ministry andthe national security ministry,entered Didi Chuxing’s offices yesterday to conduct the country’sfirst cybersecurity review.
Cotton factories in Xinjiang say business has picked up this year thanks to new customers in the Chinese market. The Chinese economy grew by over 12 percent in the first half of 2021. And the 44th session of the World Heritage Committee is kicking off in Fuzhou.
The United States is currently facing a China policy dilemma. Since President Joe Biden took office, Washington has been more than eager to demonstrate the importance of strategic competition with China. Unfortunately, as the administration has approached the first half year of its tenure, major confusion still exists among senior staff and policymakers in Washington about the best way to deal with China. The United States needs a better strategy, or at least a clear elaboration on its approach to China.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), and the intergovernmental organization is expected to see another expansion by granting the status of dialogue partners to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, a decision that was approved at the recent meeting of the SCO Council of Foreign Ministers in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
With overseas listings by Chinese companies coming under closer domestic scrutiny amid the regulator's push for stronger data protection, local businesses that want to raise funds are focusing on the home capital market rather than US IPOs, market watchers said.
China's trade with India in the first half of this year showed an upward trajectory but edged down 7 percentage points from the January-May period, probably due to the easing COVID-19 situation in India and a decline in iron core trade, experts said.
The future of the US' strategic focus will be to enhance its leading position in high-tech field, according to United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021. Yet the US ultimate goal remains unchanged: consolidating and expanding US capital groups' possession of global markets.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has taken tentative steps to initiate peace talks with separatist rebels in its southwestern Balochistan province, home to the Chinese-run deepwater port of Gwadar, amid the threat of insurgencies fuelled by civil war in neighbouring Afghanistan.
Chinese economists have refuted some overseas economists' allegation that the use of the digital yuan is a threat, saying China's currency reform won't bring fundamental change to global finance, although it may lead to less dominance of the US dollar.
At the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, Canada, investigators recently uncovered a mass grave with the remains of 215 children. After Canada passed the Indian Act in 1876, nearly 100 such indigenous boarding schools were opened across the country. The schools were aimed at assimilating aboriginal children and turning them into "civilized people" through education. According to NPR, this schooling system has its roots in the U.S. policy toward Native Americans.
As officials from China, Pakistan and Afghanistan revealed an inclination to extend the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a flagship Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) project into Afghanistan, experts said that such projects could help boost Afghanistan's exports, which is conducive to the country's journey of peace, but the feasibility of the project depends on whether the Afghan government and Taliban forces can reach a consensus on protecting overseas investment.
A global forum on ecological civilization, Eco Forum Global Guiyang 2021, opened Monday in Guiyang, capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province.
The forum will witness a range of online and offline activities. Lots of guests are expected to join the event online, while around 500 are attending the forum on site.
On July 9, 2021, Wang Wen, Executive Dean of Chongyang Institute of Financial Studies, Renmin University of China, was invited to deliver a keynote speech at the 24th Eurasian Economic Summit. The following is the full text of the speech.
China held the Communist Party of China and World Political Parties Summit on Tuesday with the aim of strengthening mutual understanding and learning, so as to promote national and international development for the well-being of the people across the world.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) has every reason to take great pride in its historic accomplishments on the occasion of its 100th anniversary. Beginning in 1921, despite the low number of individuals who were intent on pulling China out of the chaos following the downfall of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), while at the same time being hounded by the then authorities who suppressed everything that had a communist label, the leaders of the CPC had not been diverted from their mission, namely, improving the people’s livelihood and accomplishing the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation from the previous “century of humiliation.”
A striking article, "The Brazilianization of the World," was recently published in the journal American Affairs. Its starting point was the disastrous failure of Western countries to deal with COVID-19: over 600,000 COVID-19 deaths in the US, more than 525,000 in Brazil, over 400,000 in India, 128,000 in Britain. This compares to less than 5,000 in China.
Robin Zeng Yuqun, founder and chairman of leading Chinese electric vehicle battery manufacturer Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd (CATL), has passed Alibaba founder Jack Ma Yun for the first time to become the 25th wealthiest person worldwide, according to Forbes on Thursday.
The book Educated: A Memoir of Tara Westover, an American historian and writer, published in February 2018 soon became a bestseller. Bill Gates recommended it, saying, "An amazing story, and truly inspiring. It's even better than you've heard."
The US Court of International Trade (CIT) announced on Tuesday US time to grant a preliminary injunction suspending the liquidation of some Chinese imports subject to additional tariffs, a move described by trade experts as a small sign of possible and more notable progress in China-US trade talks.
The book Educated: A Memoir of Tara Westover, an American historian and writer, published in February 2018 soon became a bestseller. Bill Gates recommended it, saying, "An amazing story, and truly inspiring. It's even better than you've heard."