Emerging as a new epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, India has surpassed Brazil to report the second largest number of daily infections. Latest figure showed that the nation registered over 180,000 cases within 24 hours.
There are several urgent issues that need to be addressed, the first of which is the deficit in production capacity. At present, four vaccines have been approved for marketing, with conditions, in China. China has the world’s second-largest economy, with a complete industrial system and a large domestic market. With the support of an orderly and sufficient production chain and supply chain, China could meet the needs of large-scale vaccine production at present and in the future; more than 60 million Chinese have been vaccinated.
On Tuesday, CNN published an opinion piece entitled "Why Biden should be careful about courting India's Modi government." It warned the Biden administration to avoid an "all carrots" courtship with India because, "it's not in America's interest to become close partners with countries moving away from shared values." It underlined India's alarming "negative rights trend," but criticized the Biden administration for only making "mild" critiques against the regressive actions of the Modi government.
On the morning of April 14th 2021 , Alenka Suhadolnik, Ambassador of Slovenia to China, had a cordial meeting with Prof. Wang Wen, Executive Dean of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China (RDCY), at the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in China. The two sides had an in-depth discussion on China-Europe relations, people-to-people exchanges and educational cooperation.
I recently participated in an online discussion in Beijing, and one of the topics was economic recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic. Some experts said that new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, will quickly lead the economic recovery at a different speed from the past. The rise of the Nasdaq Composite Index seems to have confirmed this judgment.
Huawei will invest $1 billion in its auto business this year,with a focus on building components for smart vehicles, including self-driving software platforms. Rotating Chairman Eric Xu said Huawei’s autonomous-driving technology has already surpassed Tesla’s in some spheres, for instance by allowing cars to cruise for more than 1,000 kilometers without human intervention. He added Huawei will partner with three automakers initially to make self-driving cars that carry the Huawei name as a sub-brand. Huawei is piling into an already crowded pool, where automakers from U.S. leading firm Tesla to China's domestic makers Nio, Xpeng and Li Auto are battling for a slice of the world's biggest EV market.
Tensions continue to simmer along the disputed border between India and China after the latest round of talks ended with no sign of progress.
While the US-led anti-China forces pulling the political scheme of vilifying China by viciously fabricating a "forced labor" lie about Xinjiang, the northwestern region of China is embracing a prosperous future with booming China-Europe freight train service and a comprehensive development to be led by the framework of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
In the afternoon of April 8th, 2021, Ambassador of Israel to China Irit Ben-Abba had a cordial meeting with Prof. Wang Wen, Executive Dean of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China (RDCY). The two sides had an in-depth and frank exchange on global governance, international relations and education cooperation.
US President Joe Biden has invited 40 heads of state to the Leaders Summit on Climate on April 22 and 23. This has heated up the global competition over the low-carbon economy. This new competition could even be called "a new global green and low-carbon economy war."
Liu Zhiqin was interviewed by CGTN Global Business on 12APR 2021, sharing viewpoints on market fears about liquidity tightening from authorities and challenges facing China amid global booming liquidity.
Liu Zhiqin was interviewed Apr 08 by CGTN Global Watch, shared his opinions on Lessons from Poverty Fight and that China plays an active part in global poverty fight.
ISPI, the T20 National Coordinator and Chair, and the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China (RDCY) are co-promoting the T20 Associated-event “Sustainable Recovery for a Green Future”, in cooperation with CSIS, Ecologic Institute, ERIA, KIEP, OECD and SIIS. This Public Event is preceded by a closed-door Workshop by invitation only (see the programme), intended as an occasion to broaden participation in the Task Force (TF) “Climate Change, Sustainable Energy and Environment”.
Liu Zhiqin was interviewed Apr 08 by CGTN Dialogue, shared his opinions on World Economy Outlook.
US President Joe Biden wants to spend $2.3 trillion on infrastructure, a move that is obviously stimulated by the "rival" China. But when massive construction work in the US begins, the Americans might feel the pain of "political decoupling" with China.
Liu Zhiqin was interviewed on Mar 25 by Global Business on CGTN, shared his opinions on IMF on World Economy, giving future framework for regional cooperation, outlook for BRI as governments focus on infrastructure and foreign businesses tapping into China's market.
The Joe Biden administration has really gone off the rails in its latest human rights report, giving the official imprimatur to labeling Chinese policy in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region "genocide." While this outlandish claim was made by the now discredited anti-China hawk Mike Pompeo, it has now been officially adopted by the "liberal" Biden administration, and solely based on unfounded rumors spread by the right-wing networks of German Adrian Zenz.
Can foreigners in China enjoy sufficient financial services? Yiwu, an export-oriented city in East China's Zhejiang Province, has made the country's first move to issue foreign merchant cards that provide foreigners with financial services to facilitate their online shopping, consumption as well as finance and investment needs.