Yury Tavrovsky: Ukraine ‘invasion’ day passes peacefully, defies ‘war hype’

Although the US previously claimed that Russia planned to attack Ukraine on Wednesday, the day passed peacefully with the recent partial pullback of Russian troops from some border areas, although Washington and NATO said they did not see the pullback and are insistent on their claims of imminent war to prevent an easing of tensions.

Francis Fukuyama: The Administrative State

One of the most long-standing complaints of American conservatives concerns the emergence, growth, and spreading mandates of the so-called “administrative state.” The Trump administration framed this in a typically crude way as the malign “deep state” of unelected bureaucrats doing the bidding of shadowy elites against the interests of ordinary Americans. Trump and his advisors like Steve Bannon vowed that they would smash the deep state as their first order of business.

Ding Gang: Targeting China makes US Indo-Pacific Strategy goals unachievable

A year after Biden took office, the US released its much-anticipated US Indo-Pacific Strategy on February 11. It is a report drenched in poison.

Francis Fukuyama: Dangerous Revisionism

In the swirling discussions of the current Ukraine crisis, we have seen the return of a number of arguments that subtly shift the blame for the current crisis from Putin and Russia to the United States and NATO. This kind of revisionist history was made in American Purpose in an article entitled “Anatomy of a Blunder” by our editorial board member Mike Mandelbaum, my former colleague at Johns Hopkins SAIS (and, indeed, a former teacher of mine at Harvard). It is a serious argument made by a serious scholar, and deserves to be answered.

Zamir Ahmed Awan: Appeal to avert Ukraine crisis

It seems diplomacy failed and the Ukraine crisis is heading toward human disaster. President Putting blames the US for creating a situation where human disaster is unavoidable, while the US is threatening Russia on the Ukraine issue.

John Ross: Beijing inflicts a severe economic defeat on America

The news that US inflation has reached its highest level for 40 years, at 7.5% in January, is the most explicit indicator of serious problems in its economy. The monetary tightening that will be used to attempt to bring this under control will both slow the US economy and inevitably spill over into major effects on the world economy.

Grzegorz W. Kołodko: From arms to bridges

The time must come when the ruling elites will be able to draw the obvious conclusion that there is a need to cut deeply military spending, and redirect the military-related financial means to counteract global warming and coordinate economic activities to limit the areas of economic and social exclusion.

Francis Fukuyama Interview

Vijay Prashad: Terrible fate faces the Afghan people

On February 8, UNICEF Afghanistan sent out a bleak set of tweets. One of the tweets, which included a photograph of a child lying in a hospital bed with her mother seated beside her, said :“Having recently recovered from acute watery diarrhea, two-year-old Soria is back in hospital, this time suffering from edema and wasting. Her mother has been by her bedside for the past two weeks anxiously waiting for Soria to recover.”

Zamir Ahmed Awan: Criticism on President Joe Biden’s decision to avert Afghan assets to victims of 9/11

President Joe Biden signed an executive order allowing $7 billion in frozen assets from Afghanistan's central bank to eventually be distributed inside the country and to potentially fund litigation brought by families of victims of the September 11 terror attacks, senior administration officials confirmed Friday.

Diao Daming: Giant panda new ‘evil’ to US anti-China lawmakers

He Weiwen: Unilateral actions violate China-U.S. phase-one trade deal

Reuters recently quoted an official of a leading U.S. business group as saying that as "Chinese haven't met their commitment in phase one," Washington will consider a range of trade measures against China, including the resumption of "Section 301" investigation.

Zamir Ahmed Awan: Beijing Winter Olympics promoted global understanding and harmony

Sports are to promote understanding and harmony among nations and cultures. Sportspersons are true ambassadors of friendship, peace, and global unity. Olympics started with the same spirit. Beijing Winter Olympics 2022, were no exception. It was witnessed at Beijing Winter Olympics that there is no better translation of the friendship and universal vision and dreams of mankind than the Olympic spirit of friendly competition and respect among the nations.

Jean-Guy Carrier: Beijing 2022 Olympics and Paralympics: Win-win for participants and all

The achievements of athletes such as Gu Ailing and her counterparts from around the world at Beijing 2022 are a testament to the enduring spirit of the Olympic Games, and their ability to inspire us all.

Speech on "Celebrating the 43rd Anniversary of the Founding of the Islamic Republic of Iran"

William Jones: Biden's Indo-Pacific strategy will finally fail

If there was any doubt in anybody's mind regarding the policy of the U.S. government toward China, the issuance of the formal "Indo-Pacific Strategy" by the White House on February 11 makes the point crystal clear: the Joe Biden administration intends to build a wall of containment around China.

William Jones: Fostering the Olympic spirit in a strife-ridden world

While NATO and the Western countries have sent more troops to the borders of Russia and phony rumors of war proliferate in the Western media, reminiscent of the gladiatorial spirit of the ancient Roman Empire, in China the humanist spirit of the ancient Greeks is being revived in the Beijing Winter Olympics, that successor to the noble Greek pastime in which athletes from all Greek city-states would come together under the Olympic Truce to demonstrate their physical prowess in peaceful endeavors attempting to achieve the wreath of victory based on the highest achievements.

William Jones: All eyes on China during Winter Olympics

Liu Zhiqin: Views on Lunar New Year Consumption

Ding Gang: Olympics showcase China as a green development trailblazer

The wonderful appearance of LEDs during the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics reminded me of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. That opening ceremony used a ground-level LED screen, 3,234 square meters in area, but many parts, especially key components, were imported from abroad.