MCC, sovereignty and the right to development
By Nirmal P. Acharya The only rule of travel is: don’t come back the way you went. Yet, after many years of traveling around the world, when I returned to…
China doesn’t need to take cues from Washington on with whom to have military exercises
The Vostok 2022 military exercises will be held September 1-7 in the Russian Eastern Military District. Thirteen countries including China, India, Belarus, Mongolia and Algeria are invited to send troops…
Chinese observers express mixed feelings about Gorbachev, draw lessons from his immature policy of cozying up with West
Chinese observers and netizens on Wednesday shared the mixed feeling about controversial politician Mikhail Gorbachev's passing away on Tuesday. While the West remembered him and praised his historical role for…
After Saigon and Kabul, now a ‘Baghdad moment’ comes into sight
Despite denial from the White House over reports that it had ordered personnel to evacuate from Baghdad, capital of Iraq, video clips and pictures which appear to show US Embassy…
India is trying to make the area around Pokhara a base
# Prem Sagar Poudel Indian Army Chief Manoj Pandey is coming to Kathmandu on September 4 for a 5-day visit to Nepal. Pandey started coming to Nepal to receive the…
Xinjiang witnesses booming development in past decade; numbers serve as counterstrike to defy Western slander
In the past decade, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region witnessed booming development with regional GDP climbing to 1.6 trillion yuan ($0.23 trillion) last year, which doubled the figure of…
Audit oversight agreement of US-listed Chinese companies a symbolic case of China-US cooperation
The China-US cross-border regulatory cooperation has taken an important step forward. On Friday, China Securities Regulatory Commission and Ministry of Finance signed an audit oversight cooperation agreement with the US…
Taiwan Straits has entered a more dangerous and fragile new stage featuring long-term confrontation, but windows of peaceful reunification are not completely closed: experts
In the context of the great power game between China and the US, the situation across the Taiwan Straits has entered a more dangerous and fragile new stage featuring long-term…
Six months on, US adds fuel to Ukraine crisis with $3b aid as world order alters, West hegemony weakens
It's been six months since the Russia-Ukraine military conflict exploded in February, and the crisis has turned into grinding battles with no clear endgame in sight. While the US and…
Ugly trade between separatist DPP and foreign politicians must stop
In a meeting with Taiwan regional leader Tsai Ing-wen on Tuesday, Keiji Furuya, a Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker of Japan, whose trip to the island has prompted stern warnings from…