On September 15, 2021, the heads of government of Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States announced the formation of AUKUS, "a new enhanced trilateral security partnership" between these three countries. Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson joined U.S. President Joe Biden to "preserve security and stability in the Indo-Pacific," as Johnson put it.
WASHINGTON’S foreign policy is driven by the US industrial-military complex, a leading Chinese commentator said today, warning of an impending arms race triggered by a recent security pact.
With 678,000 deaths and rising, Covid-19 is now the deadliest epidemic ever to hit the United States, surpassing the death toll of the 1918 flu, and indeed the combined US military deaths in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf Wars and the Afghanistan War.
On September 10, Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden had a lengthy and constructive phone conversation, bringing new hope for stabilizing the bilateral relations which is at their lowest point in 40 years.
Liu Zhiqin, a senior fellow from the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at the Renmin University of China, shared his insights with CGTN regarding with Mid-Autumn Festival Consumption. He talkes that creative mooncakes become more popular, and combination of innovation and tradition embodies Chinese people's pursuit of high quality and better life.
Ding Gang is a senior editor with People's Daily, and currently a senior fellow with the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China. This is his column on Global Times.
China has taken unprecedented action to cut emissions, report says
Vladimir Lenin, late leader of Soviet Union, once argued that imperialist wars are absolutely inevitable under monopolist capitalism. The view is still of great significance to our understanding of the US today.
The irony speaks for itself. The US, where the unabated COVID-19 pandemic has claimed more lives in the country than the 1918 flu pandemic, and being accused as the world's biggest hoarder of surplus COVID-19 vaccines, sought to set a course for global vaccine allocation on Wednesday.
The goal of China's carbon neutrality means that China aims to take the shortest time span in history to achieve the world's fastest carbon emission reduction, despite being the world's largest developing country. Compared with other developed countries, such as the US, Europe, and Japan, China's per capita GDP and per capita emissions at peak carbon emissions would be at a level lower than those countries when they achieve peak carbon emissions. This will bring about broad and profound economic and social systemic transformations. These need our great endeavors.
China's "dual carbon" target will make it the most efficient country in the world in reduction of carbon emissions, an official mentioned on Wednesday, which marks the one-year anniversary of China's proposal to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060.
China's role in tackling climate change is crucial. On September 22, 2020, Chinese President Xi Jinping first proposed at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that China would strive to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. After that a broad and profound systemic economic and social transformation has been underway in China. On the occasion of the first anniversary of China's carbon neutral goal, Renmin University of China and China International Publishing Group jointly organized an international symposium to commemorate the first anniversary of Chinese President Xi Jinping's “Double Carbon” goals at UNGA and telling the world about China's "Double Carbon" process.
Asia Society Texas was honored to welcome Kevin Rudd, President and CEO of the Asia Society and Asia Society Policy Institute, for a discussion about China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in partnership with the Harvard Business School Club of Houston. Rudd spoke with moderator Charles Foster, Foster LLP Chairman and Asia Society Texas Center Lifetime Director, regarding the concerns and criticisms surrounding BRI, as well as the economic and security implications it has raised for the U.S. and Western countries amid the shifting balance of power between China and the U.S.
The world stands at a critical juncture of the COVID-19 pandemic. Countries that lack the first round of vaccine coverage are extraordinarily vulnerable to the highly infectious Delta variant, and are also seedbeds for new variants that could quickly spread worldwide. The Lancet COVID-19 Commission, which I chair, is working urgently with the United Nations system to strengthen the multilateral response. Governments of countries where vaccines are being produced – the United States, European Union members, the United Kingdom, India, Russia, and China – need to cooperate under UN leadership to ensure that a sufficient supply of vaccine doses reaches the poorest countries.
Chinese companies could help quicken the pace of economic development in the Russian Far East, as both China and Russia have laid a solid foundation in policy support and cross-border infrastructure projects in the region, though a faster development in the region needs a little more Russian passion, Chinese experts said on Friday.
In this edition, Spotlight interviews John Ross with Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies from London and Harley Schlanger member of the Board of Directors at Schiller Institute from Potsdam, Germany, to look at different aspects of the unanimous decision of Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states to accept Irans full membership and the significance of such a block known as the alliance of the East at a time of growing tensions with the West.
Did anyone imagine that the British Empire was a thing of the past? The latest moves by the Biden administration clearly indicate that it has been reincarnated under U.S. leadership and that the old "gunboat diplomacy" which in the 19th century was led by Her Royal Majesty Victoria is now being led by an American President. President John Quincy Adams warned long ago that the United States should never become "a cockboat in the wake of a British man-of-war".
According to Indian media reports, the US is in touch with India about using it as a staging post for aerial strikes in Afghanistan, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations during a hearing on Monday.
The global food system is unsustainable. While it is worth approximately $8 trillion annually, its negative impact is valued at roughly $12 trillion. This is not the system's only contradiction. Around the world, food systems are both affected by climate change (owing to disruptive weather and rising temperatures) and make significant contributions to it (through greenhouse-gas emissions and biodiversity destruction). The millions of jobs they provide are often low-quality and poorly paid. Most significantly, they fail in their ultimate purpose of delivering affordable, healthy food to all.
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of 9/11 attacks, many academic institutions in China and the US held seminars to summarize the changes in the US, China and the world in the past two decades.