Wang Yiwei: NATO summit to fan flames of Ukraine crisis, unlikely to reach major concrete consensus

As NATO leaders gathered on Thursday to discuss the Ukraine crisis, the US has been mulling new sanctions on Russia to further pressure it. While the military alliance plans to boost military deployments in eastern Europe, it also targeted China - an extraterritorial third-party that has been calling for peaceful dialogue to de-escalate the situation - and continued to distort its role, which, some Chinese experts said, would only fan the flames, resulting in a prolonged conflict and a growing humanitarian crisis that heavily weighs on Europe.

John Ross: US economic downturn motivates its global military expansion

The US threat to bring Ukraine into NATO, which caused the Ukraine military conflict, signifies the United States has been prepared to cross a new threshold in its aggressive international military policy. Previously the US carried out military actions against developing countries with far weaker armed forces than itself - Serbia (1999), Afghanistan (2001), Iraq (2003), Libya (2011). But the US threat to extend NATO into Ukraine was a policy which it knew in advance affected the most fundamental national interests of a country with strong military forces including nuclear weapons - Russia - therefore explicitly crossing Russia's "red lines."

Wang Yiwei: Biden makes US tensions with Russia ‘personal’; calling for ‘regime change’ in a nuclear power dangerous

The Biden administration's real and desperate intention in the Ukraine crisis has been exposed - to turn Ukraine into a mire so that Russia keeps bleeding, and to force Russians to yield again and choose a pro-US regime, said experts on Sunday, as US President Joe Biden on Saturday said Russian President Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power." The remarks indicated that the US president may have been frustrated by Moscow's resistance against US sanctions and isolation through effective countermeasures.

Vijay Prashad: Hunger Stalks Central Asia as the Ukraine War Unfolds

On March 16, 2022, Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev delivered his State of the Nation address in Nur-Sultan. Most of Tokayev’s speech was about the political reforms in Kazakhstan he had either accomplished or planned to advance, after he had promised them as redress to January’s political unrest and protests against the Kazakh government. He also addressed the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on Kazakhstan during his speech and pointed to the spikes in food prices and currency volatility as some of the worrying economic consequences being faced by the country as a fallout of this conflict.

Zamir Ahmed Awan: Pakistan’s leadership role in the Ummah

Pakistan has revived its traditional leadership role of Muslim Ummah. Pakistan was one of the founding members of OIC in 1967 and was a very proactive member. Unfortunately, since the Afghan war in the 1980s, Pakistan overall deteriorated day by day and became less active in OIC. The 48th Session of Council of Foreign Ministers of member states held on 22-23 March 2022, has proved Pakistan’s potential to lead Ummah.

Diao Daming: Late Albright’s views on China reflect contradictory attitudes of US politicians

Madeleine Albright, the first female US secretary of state, died of cancer at the age of 84, her family said in a statement on Wednesday. Experts said that Albright's views on China reflected the contradictory attitudes of many US politicians, seeing economic benefits in working with China but holding hostility from a strategic point of view.

Peter Koenig: Ukraine-Russia: A Proxy-War, Advancing the Agenda of the Great Reset?

After almost four decades of a Cold War from the mid-1950s to 1991, and another 2 decades of Cold War 2.0, since the beginning of the year 2000, when Mr. Putin took over the Presidency of Russia, the US via NATO, and with her European vassals, are now engaged in a hot war with Russia, using Ukraine as a proxy.

Liu Zhiqin: U.S. sanctions violate human rights of countries targeted

CGTN's Guan Xin spoke to Liu Zhiqin, senior research fellow of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China, for his insight into the role of U.S. sanctions.

Wang Yiwei: NATO summit to fan flames of Ukraine crisis, unlikely to reach major concrete consensus

As NATO leaders gathered on Thursday to discuss the Ukraine crisis, the US has been mulling new sanctions on Russia to further pressure it. While the military alliance plans to boost military deployments in eastern Europe, it also targeted China - an extraterritorial third-party that has been calling for peaceful dialogue to de-escalate the situation - and continued to distort its role, which, some Chinese experts said, would only fan the flames, resulting in a prolonged conflict and a growing humanitarian crisis that heavily weighs on Europe.

Zamir Ahmed Awan: US should focus on resolving Ukraine conflict instead of adding fuel to it

China has shown itself to be a practical example of “Peaceful Developments.” During the last four decades, China has set aside all disputes and differences with other nations and focused on economic and social development. Although China used to have border disputes, trade disputes, or policy differences with many nations, it overcame all of these differences and disputes through positive engagement politically and diplomatically under the UN Charter. As a result, China has emerged as the second largest global economy, surpassed the rest of the world in many technological advances, such as telecommunications, infrastructure, high-speed trains, etc. The Chinese people have become one of the happiest in the world, enjoying the highest position on the purchasing power index. The country’s standard of life has improved exponentially. There was a time when China was one of the worst poverty-hit nations on the planet. But today, China is the only country that has succeeded in eliminating ext

Peter Koenig: “Sudden Death of Corona Crisis” Versus “Sudden War with Ukraine”

From one day to the next, a sudden change of priorities – of official UN and government, as well as media priorities, that is. Covid is out and war is in. And we, the people, are to believe it. Everything changed. Corona, held our breath for the last two years, suddenly it disappears, as if it never happened, and makes place to a war, practically overnight. A war that risks to escalate – they say – into a nuclear war. And a war where Russia attacks Ukraine and may use nuclear weapons, thereby prompt NATO to retaliate also with nuclear missiles – and bingo, we have WWIII. This a scenario that western media paint.

Dong Shaopeng: US-traded Chinese firms on optimistic sentiment

US-listed Chinese stocks continued to rally over the past week since a key meeting addressed a number of concerns regarding China's stock market and US-listed Chinese companies, prompting positive responses from companies as they move to boost investor confidence.

William Jones: Lessons of Ukraine: The world needs a new security architecture

As the world is hoping for a rapid end to the Russia-Ukraine hostilities and the restoration of peace in Europe, the events should also give the world pause to reflect on the conditions that led up to this military conflict.

William Jones: To Defend Mistreating Uyghurs, China Turns to Fringe U.S. Source

On March 21, the U.S. State Department imposed visa restrictions on Chinese officials allegedly responsible for rights abuses, including the repression of “ethnic minority groups.”

Ding Gang: European integration framework unsuitable for Asia

The Russia-Ukraine conflict has demonstrated once again that the model of European integration, of which NATO is an important part, cannot be used to develop political and economic security order in Asia.

Liu Zongyi: India should seriously consider suggestion for rejoining RCEP

Over two years after India decided to quit negotiation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the mega regional trade deal's door is still open to India, a senior Japanese official said recently.

Vijay Prashad: Advantage China, India? Sanctions against Russia 'impact' Central Asian economies

During the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Antalya, Turkey, which took place from March 11 to March 13, 2022, the Kyrgyz Republic’s Foreign Minister Ruslan Kazakbaev told Helga Maria Schmid, the secretary-general of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), that his country would be happy to host Russian-Ukrainian talks and serve as the “mediator for re-establishment of peace and mutual understanding” between the two countries.

Zamir Ahmed Awan: The New World Polarizations

Ukraine’s crisis has transformed geopolitics into a completely new world order. It has put many countries into more confusion to decide to side with whom.

Liu Zhiqin: Will the crisis spawn a global food crisis?

Liu Zhiqin: Views on RMB in International Trade