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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Few issues show more clearly the real difference between the pro-human oriented policies of socialism in China and pro-capital oriented policies of the U.S. than the two countries response to the Covid pandemic. The U.S., while verbally proclaiming support for “human rights”, is actively campaigning for a policy that would already have led to 3.6 million Chinese people being dead and would result in more than two million more dying in 2022. That is the factual meaning of the U.S. call for China to abandon its “Zero Covid” policy. To be more precise, the U.S. in the name of “human rights” is calling for a policy that would kill 6.4 million Chinese people by the end of this year – that is, the U.S. is calling for a slaughter of millions of Chinese people in the name of “human rights”
Chinese President Xi Jinping said China is ready to work with Central Asian countries and pledged to build a cooperation belt for high-quality development, strengthen the shield for defending peace, diversify interaction mechanisms and offer assistance to advance the Global Development Initiative.
Eurasia EXPERT:Russian President Vladimir Putin wrote an article for the Chinese news agency Xinhua, in which he spoke about partnership and the future in relations between Russia and China. The article "Russia and China: a strategic partnership oriented towards the future" was published on the eve of the Russian leader's visit to Beijing. How would you evaluate the article of the President of Russia? How was this article received in China? What main theses could you single out from his article?
2022 is not 2008. In 2008, the West was warming to China. It had growing expectations of their relationship. Since then, the warmth has been replaced by a cold chill. China did not westernize in the manner that the US expected and required. Worse, China got stronger as the US grew weaker. By 2016, the US was disillusioned that its hopes had not been fulfilled. It turned against China and sought to ostracize it. The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics take place in a very different atmosphere to the Summer Olympics in 2008. No doubt the US wishes it wasn't taking place at all. There is nothing it can do about that; so it resorted to a "diplomatic boycott." But this has been a damp squib. Who really cares whether or not US diplomats attend; sure, it is better if they are present, but if they aren't, the price of their absence is very small. It is a weak gesture made all the weaker by the fact that the boycott has remarkably few backers, 14 in total.
China's capital market is expected to see sound development with more opportunities this year, experts said.
Editor's note: Djoomart Otorbaev is the former Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic, a distinguished professor of the Belt and Road School of Beijing Normal University, and a member of Nizami Ganjavi International Center. The article reflects the author's views and not necessarily those of CGTN.