John Ross: Shanghai Cooperation Organization

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 Iran’s 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.

William Jones: Submarine deal presages a new round of 'gunboat diplomacy' against China

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".

Long Xingchun: Being a staging post for US' strikes against Afghanistan is a bad choice for India

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.

Simon Zadek: Financing a sustainable global food system

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.

Ding Gang: US knows it cannot benefit at China's expense. But will it stop?

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.

Djoomart Otorbaev: Iran is joining the SCO, which is good news for both

September 15 marks the 20th anniversary of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), and the SCO summit is scheduled September 16-17. Besides the events marking the anniversary, another event will be of equal importance: Iran's addition to the SCO.

World Insight with Tian Wei

Hua Liming, Former Chinese Ambassador to Iran, shared his insights with Tian Wei from CGTN, about Afghanistan under Taliban rule.

【2021-09-10】Webinar: Collective voices against politicization of origin of Covid-19

Zhou Rong: How CPEC matters for Afghanistan?

AFGHANISTAN is a land-locked country and at the same time there is a lot of potential in the sector of international trade.

Djoomart Otorbaev: SDRs should be used by governments, not central banks

At the very beginning of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, it became clear that its impact on the world's affairs would be unprecedented. Among the first to realize the scale of the impending danger of pandemics were international financial institutions.

Zhou Rong: Chinese firms eye resumption of freight train to Afghanistan, after $31m in emergency aid

After Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced 200 million yuan worth of aid to Afghanistan, Chinese merchants are hopeful that the China-Central Asia freight trains could be re-opened as soon as possible, which could be a major step in helping bring much-needed humanitarian aid to the war-torn country as well as pave the way for its future reconstruction.

William Jones: Is there a new beginning for U.S.-China relations?

The phone call on September 10 between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping was an important encounter that has the potential of setting into motion a new direction in the deteriorating U.S.-China relationship.

A World Reshaped

US' withdrawal from Afghanistan adds to the tally of world powers that have failed in the heart of Eurasia. The war in Afghanistan, which started in 2001, seems to have come to an abrupt end in 2021. What does this mean for the world?

Martin Jacques: US is no longer exceptional, but it takes time to accept this fact

In historical retrospect, America's reaction to the 9/11 attacks on New York's Twin Towers was breathtakingly disproportionate. Tragic though it was, a death toll of 2,977 barely registers on the Richter scale of military conflict and acts of terrorism. If the same had happened to the magnificent Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, it might have been on the front pages of Western newspapers for a day or two, and then it would have been forgotten. But 9/11 happened in America.

Liu Zhiqin: Views on Guinea's Mining Sector

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

Guinea's Mining Sector. He talkes that no reports yet of coup shut down country's crucial bauxite mining sector and about global supply chain sensitivity to potential post-coup disruptions.

Ding Gang: Why US so obsessed with ideas of changing others?

There is a crucial element for the stable development of US-China relations: US policymakers need to restrain and abandon their intrinsic impulse to change China's political system.

Liu Ying: New Beijing Stock Exchange to accelerate decoupling of US-China financial markets

China’s new stock exchange in Beijing will likely accelerate the decoupling of financial markets between the U.S. and China, experts say.

Kevin Rudd: Speech on The 9th World Peace Forum

Thank you President WANG Chao for your kind introduction. It's good to be back at the World Peace Forum, and to say a few words here with friends and colleagues.

Liu Ying: China-Europe trade remains robust as cargo trains breach 10,000-trip mark two months early

Trade between China and Europe remained robust in the first eight months of this year despite a rising set of hurdles posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and growing tensions, as the number of China-Europe cargo train trips exceeded 10,000 at the end of August - two months earlier than last year, data showed on Thursday.

Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. needs to work with China against COVID-19

The U.S. needs to cooperate with China to "find a global solution in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic," Malaysian news outlet The Star reported on Sunday, quoting Jeffrey Sachs, head of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission.