Ding Gang: Yuan Longping legacy shows the West needs to change mind to better know China

Lots of foreigners don't understand why so many Chinese people are sorrowful about the death of a 91-year-old man. Some have asked: Who is Yuan Longping?

A shares rally on record northbound net inflows from HK as yuan gains strength

Chinese mainland stock market posted a stellar rally on Tuesday, with the flagship Shanghai Composite Index finishing up 2.4 percent at 3,581.34 points. The gain was spurred by record net inflows into the A-share market via northbound trading linkups between the mainland and Hong Kong bourses as the Chinese yuan gained strength.

Liu Zongyi: India's vaccine pursuit faces uncertain response from US

Biden’s major economic policies adjustment deserves attention

In the first more than 100 days in office, US President Joe Biden has made major adjustments to a wide range of economic policies. The important influences coming with the US' adjustments deserve global attention.

Wang Wen: Dare detractors come and see reality of Xinjiang?

A Better Xinjiang: China Public Diplomacy Association holds online forum to discuss life in autonomous region

Xinjiang is rarely out of the news these days, as many international media continue to allege rights abuses in the Chinese autonomous region. But after visiting Xinjiang, experts and officials from both China and across the world say they are stunned by its rapid socio-economic development. Officials and experts have shared their views on the latest developments in Xinjiang, at a forum held by the China Public Diplomacy Association. The gathering, held in Kashgar, comes after participants wrapped up a week-long tour of Xinjiang. They acknowledged the effectiveness of measures to tackle extremism and end poverty in the region. They also called for the global community to develop a clearer understanding of how Uyghurs are treated there.

US’ delaying investment ban on China raises concern over tougher curbs

The Biden administration on Tuesday announced a two-week delay of an investment ban on some Chinese companies it claims to be linked to the Chinese military, an extension apparently intended to prepare for a tougher prohibition on such investments.

Ding Gang: US turns democracy into ‘strategic weapon’ to counter opponents

According to US media, US President Joe Biden will host a "Summit for Democracy" during his first year in office. The summit aims to mobilize so-called democratic governments to form a wide alliance to contain the rise of so-called authoritarian countries such as China and Russia.

Zhou Rong: Washington shows little morality whitewashing terrorists targeting Xinjiang

A CNN report on Saturday focused on 22 Uygurs who were once locked up in Guantanamo. They were classed as "enemy combatants" in Washington's war on terror, and to be more specific, members of the terrorist organization East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), or the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party. Eventually, the detainees were all declared "non-combatants" and released.

Wang Wen: Quixotic US paranoid to flex power

"No Cold War" campaign has turned into an international movement attracting attention from millions of people. This shows the number of peace lovers around the world is increasing.

Panel: Is China really facing a demographic time bomb?

With new demographic figures from its once-in-a-decade census, how should China work out its population policy for the next decade? Host Ding Heng is joined by Dr. Lauren Johnston, Research Associate of the China Institute at the School of African and Oriental Studies in London, Professor Chen Sheying from Pace University, and Liu Zhiqin from Renmin University's Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies.

Djoomart Otorbaev: Rethinking sovereign debt restructuring: Global green solution

Judging by recent events, a solution to two related global problems facing humanity will soon be proposed. It is about solving the problems of low-income countries' debts to their creditors and involving those countries in the fight against climate change at the same time.

He Weiwen: US suppression on China investment heading for failure

World's biggest investment group BlackRock has obtained approval to start operating a wealth management business in China, another landmark event for the opening of China's financial sector to foreign businesses that has attracted widespread market attention.

Liu Zongyi: Wooing Bangladesh to Quad against China not to help Bangladesh devt

Member countries of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad), an informal security grouping of the US, Japan, Australia and India, are now seeking to seduce Bangladesh to be part of their Indo-Pacific efforts, according to media reports. Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming said on Monday that China-Bangladesh bilateral ties would be substantially damaged if Dhaka engaged with Quad, according to a report of The Times of India.

Wang Wen: China’s green development shows self-restraint

The Chinese government has pledged that China will hit peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and become carbon neutral before 2060. Very soon after this news, "emission peak" and "carbon neutrality" have become buzzwords in China's financial, energy and industrial circles. Relevant seminars and forums are being held almost every day in big cities like Beijing and Shanghai.

New Zealand’s bid to find middle between its Western allies and China not lost on Beijing: experts

The New Zealand parliament’s unanimous declaration last week that human rights abuses were occurring in China’s Xinjiang province drew condemnation from Beijing, but the removal of the term “genocide” suggested Wellington is unwilling to jeopardise relations, analysts said.

Ding Gang: Chinese companies grow globally despite West's anxiety

British columnist Martin Wolf made a claim in his recent Financial Times article titled "China is wrong to think the US faces inevitable decline." Wolf wrote that it is wrong for Chinese elites to assume that the US is in irreversible decline. He justified his views by ranking the values of global companies.

William Jones: G7 – Upholding a dying order

Perhaps not since the Congress of Vienna in 1814 has a limited group of nations attempted to set up a world order in which they made the rules for the rest of the world. Missing in that group was the United States, indeed the entire Western hemisphere, most of which was still under the colonial boot as well as the most populous Chinese Empire. That order only lasted – very tenuously – until 1848. The order which the G7 is attempting to uphold is already on its last legs.

Liu Zongyi: Indian economy looks increasingly bleak with ferocious virus resurgence

While India's ferocious COVID-19 resurgence is shocking the world, some institutions have started to review their estimation for Indian GDP in the 2021-22 fiscal year, with Oxford Economics lowering India's growth to 10.2 percent from 11.8 percent.

Ding Gang: US still 'king' of contemporary capitalism

Many of the problems that have arisen since the beginning of the 21st century are ultimately the result of American-style capitalism - especially the social divisions in the US itself.