Following a recent report saying that the United States canceled Chinese scholars' visas or placed them under administrative review by the FBI, experts warned that Washington's ramping up measures to treat China as a rival could significantly harm normal bilateral exchanges and damage the country's open and inclusive national image.
The release of China's newly approved foreign investment law, which aims to protect overseas investment, showed the confidence of the country's system as well as the maturity of the Chinese market, an expert said on Thursday.
A decision by Switzerland to join the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has garnered much praise in China, where analysts call the move a crucial step that will open up massive possibilities for cooperation and strengthen bilateral trade and economic ties.
Durian is one of the main fruits that Thailand exports to China. When I was a correspondent in Thailand eight years ago, a Thai exporter told me that it took around 10 days for durians from being picked to being transported to ports on China's southeastern coast. Durian should be picked when it is 60 to 70 percent ripe. The exporter's profits suffer as durians shrink and lose weight during transportation.
The Ministry of Finance (MOF) has approved the sale of local government bonds directly to individuals as well as small and medium-sized institutional investors at commercial bank counters, triggering massive investor enthusiasm.
Doubts have again been raised over the Belt and Road Initiative's goals, with some calling it a "debt trap" for participating countries and China's "geopolitical expansion tool". Why are anti-China elements using such ploys to malign China? And will they see reason once the Belt and Road Initiative starts yielding fruitful results for the participating countries? Two experts share their views on the issue with China Daily's Pan Yixuan. Excerpts follow:
On April 12, Zhou Rong, senior fellow of RDCY join the program The Belt and Road: Face to Face, which was co-produced by by China Economic Net and VSH News Television, and discussed the hot issues regarding the development of China. The following is the full text of the discussion.
Following Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Italy, Monaco and France in March, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived in Brussels, Belgium on April 8 for the 21st China-European Union (EU) leaders’ meeting. After Brussels, Li is scheduled to pay an official visit to Croatia where he will attend the eighth leaders’ meeting for China and Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs). China has attached great importance to diplomatic relations with Europe, as top Chinese leaders paid their first visit of the year to European countries.
The risk of misjudgment could significantly rise as normal China-US people-to-people exchanges have been severely affected by the US, Chinese experts warned, following reports that the US either canceled the visas of scores of Chinese social science scholars or put them on administrative review by the FBI in 2018.
The holistic view of national security in China was first proposed five years ago, but few open resources report the development of China's national security system. In April 2014, while presiding over the first meeting of the National Security Commission of the CPC Central Committee, Chinese President Xi Jinping emphasized the need to adhere to a holistic view of national security and explore a "national security path with Chinese characteristics."
BEIJING - Seeing a catfish effect from the launch of new science and technology innovation board, local analysts have put high hopes on the country's IPO review reform and expect higher efficiency.
Speaking to reporters at the White House on April 10, U.S. President Donald Trump commented on the Mueller report, which concluded that there was no collusion between Russia and the Trump administration, allegations which have been continually bandied about by the president's opponents ever since he was elected.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang set the GDP growth target for 2019 at between 6 and 6.5 percent, lower than the 6.6 percent last year and the lowest in almost three decades. Besides, with mounting uncertainties in the international economic landscape, there are fears about China's economic slowdown, and even about the possibility of China getting into a middle income trap.
BEIJING - Seeing a catfish effect from the launch of new science and technology innovation board, local analysts have put high hopes on the country's IPO review reform and expect higher efficiency.
"China moved so fast that in some parts of the world there is just too much debt."
In his first interview after taking over as World Bank president, David Malpass expressed his willingness to work with China to push for high quality development projects and the World Bank's overriding goal of sustainable development and poverty alleviation.
In recent years, quite a number of authoritative international forecasts have been bullish on India's economic development prospects. They generally predict that India will become the world's third largest economy after the US and China around 2030, citing its "demographic dividend" as one of the major reasons. Of the 1.3 billion people in India, there are about 800 million young and middle-aged people, with the average age of its labor force at around 27. About 65 percent of the country's population is under the age of 35.
US Vice President Mike Pence announced in late March the administration's plans for Americans to return to the moon within the next five years as the 50th anniversary of the first manned mission to the earth's satellite approaches. President Donald Trump nominated Air Force General John Raymond to lead the recently created US Space Command that was confirmed by Pence in his speech. The US vice president pointed to Russia and China's advancements in the space realm as evidence that the US is in a "space race."
On April 9, U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that the U.S. will impose tariffs on 11 billion U.S. dollars worth of European Union products, ranging from airplanes to dairy products. Imposing tariffs seems to be the latest arrow in the Trump quiver these days in achieving some of his long-term goals. The real question, however, is how effective will they be in realizing the revival of U.S. economic growth.
China and the European Union have committed to achieving major progress this year in negotiations for a high-level bilateral investment agreement, with a view to concluding the ambitious accord next year, according to a joint statement.
India's general election, to be held from Thursday to May 19, is regarded as the largest democratic exercise in the world. More than 900 million voters aged over 18 will elect 543 members to the Lok Sabha, India's lower house of parliament, from candidates belonging to hundreds of political parties.