Positive signals are coming from Washington. The visit of US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and meetings with Pakistani leadership is an encouraging step to improve the trust between the two nations. She is one of only a handful of Muslim members of Congress, a Somali-born Muslim-American immigrant who represents Minnesota in the US House of Representatives. It was the first high-level visit by a member of the US Congress since a new coalition government came into power in Islamabad.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for blazing a new path to building world-class universities with Chinese characteristics during a visit to Renmin University of China on Monday.
Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Renmin University of China on Monday in Beijing ahead of China's Youth Day, which falls on May 4. During the visit, Xi said the country's universities should be deeply rooted in China and avoid simply copying foreign standards and models. He also extended festive greetings to young people of all ethnic groups nationwide.
Lifting tariffs on certain Chinese products will help mitigate the highest inflation in four decades in the United States and put bilateral trade relations back on a normal track this year, experts and business leaders said on Sunday.