With 2018 drawing to a close, it is time to review the many ups and downs that occurred in the international community. Among others, the U.S.-EU relations have been thrown into the spotlight, making the world wonder if the good old alliance is on the brink of breaking. In this article for CGTN, William Jones, the Washington bureau chief for the Executive Intelligence Review, and non-resident senior fellow of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China, shares his insights.
Chinese experts and officials on Friday strongly condemned the latest US Justice Department accusation of China’s hacking behaviors, which is considered to be predicated on rising McCarthyism in America that has seriously interrupted its judgment and decision-making process.
The Chinese economy has kept up good growth momentum, and more new measures will be taken in 2019 to facilitate its high-quality development, according to a key economic meeting concluded Friday.
US President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that the US will withdraw its troops from Syria in an unexpected move that analysts said exposes the divide among US policymakers and does not necessarily indicate the US will shift its focus to other regions.
Russian leader pushes economic growth at annual press conference
Russia highly values the rapid development of China since the start of the reform and opening-up policy, and emphasized deeper cooperation between the two countries, President Vladimir Putin said at his annual end-of-year news conference in Moscow on Thursday.
The mainland financial markets have responded calmly to the US Federal Reserve's overnight decision to raise its benchmark interest rates. Fluctuations in the range of the yuan's exchange rate against the US dollar were limited.
There are many miracles in the world and in the process of human civilization. But the rise of China is, among them, the greatest. In just 40 years, China accomplished the most marvelous spectacle in human development, achieving huge societal progress and lifting the living standards of billions of people.
As globalization goes deeper, economic and trade ties between China and most other countries in the world have seen rapid growth. In this new era of high interconnectivity and win-win cooperation, China has learned from the development experience of countries worldwide with a humble attitude and honest diligence to form its unique "socialism with Chinese characteristics" development model. In this process, China borrowed experience from the world's most developed countries and set foot on a development path that was suited to its own situation. This model has powered the economic take-off and soaring growth of China.
China will not give up its pursuit of technological progress through industrial transformation, even if it makes some changes to the "Made in China 2025" initiative, Chinese experts said on Thursday.
Ex-White House economic adviser Gary Cohn said he didn’t expect Democratic election gains to speed the end of President Donald Trump’s China trade war, even as some in Beijing held out hope he might warm to talks.
With the first pile driven into the foundation in Shanghai, Baosteel broke ground on Dec. 23, 1978, just one day after the Communist Party of China (CPC) closed its epoch-making meeting that ushered in the era of reform and opening-up.
The escalating tensions between China and the US fueled by the detention of a top Huawei executive have spurred some Chinese enterprises and people to boycott US products.
Voices against calls for a boycott of Chinese telecom giant Huawei have emerged in France and Germany despite Washington's alleged attempts to persuade wireless companies and internet providers in allied countries to shun equipment made by Huawei.
When the reform and opening-up was in its infancy in the late 1970s and the early 1980s, China exported a large number of workers to countries where infrastructure was needed. Then things became much more complicated – construction companies gained more engineering expertise and, meanwhile, the Chinese economy became zippier. China has gradually become a lender for infrastructure projects outside of China, hence giving birth to a new model of cooperation.
December 13 marks Nanjing Massacre Memorial Day. It has been 81 years since the tragedy happened. Though there are fewer and fewer witnesses who are able to take part in the commemoration as time goes by, discussions about this tragedy shall never stop.
From East to West the Silk Road is rising up once more. It traverses countries between China and the Mediterranean. These lands have always been of pivotal importance in global history in one way or another linking East and West, serving as a melting pot where ideas, customs and languages have jostled with each other from antiquity to modern day.
Former world leaders, renowned scholars and business elites from around the world on Monday called for win-win cooperation to build a shared future at an international meeting in Guangdong. This year's meeting of the Imperial Springs International Forum came against the background of heated discussions regarding current China-US trade tensions.
The US and China decided to control the opioid fentanyl in an agreement reached in Argentina couple of days ago. President Xi Jinping has agreed to designate fentanyl as a controlled substance "in a wonderful humanitarian gesture," meaning that people smuggling it into the US will be subject to "China's maximum penalty under the law."
After three days of hearings, Huawei's chief financial officer (CFO) Meng Wanzhou was released on bail in Canada. She was arrested on December 1 on charge of misleading multinational banks about Iran-linked transactions and could be extradited to the United States.
On Monday, Japan decided to exclude Chinese telecoms giants Huawei Technologies and ZTE from the government procurement list. Since the Donald Trump administration signed the National Defense Authorization Act in August this year banning the U.S. government and contractors from using Huawei technology, there had been rumors that Japan would follow suit.