Published: December 14,2023 By Zafar Uddin Mahmood Editor’s note: The modernization China seeks involves a massive population base and a rapid pace of realization. It could be seen as a super-scale human development practice. What is the difference between Chinese and Western modernization? Will Chinese modernization offer another global model for development? Zafar Uddin Mahmood, the former …

Published: December 14,2023 Chinese Ambassador to Egypt Liao Liqiang delivers a speech at the launching ceremony of the first flight of the Shanghai-Cairo air route of the China Eastern Airlines in Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 11, 2023. (Xinhua/Sui Xiankai) China Eastern Airlines began operating direct flights between Shanghai and the Egyptian capital Cairo on Monday, …

Published: December 13,2023 By Staff writer  When the third China-Africa Peace and Security Forum that opened in Beijing mid this year, the two sides agreed to work together to address various international security challenges. Participants emphasized concerted efforts in resisting countries that interfere in others’ internal affairs to maintain their own interests.  Some countries it was noted, try to tarnish …

Published: December 13,2022 By Xu Yelu China’s special climate envoy Xie Zhenhua gives a press conference at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai on December 9, 2023.Photo: VCG China supports fair trade of climate-friendly technologies and products, including zero-carbon and low-carbon technologies and products, Xie Zhenhua, China’s special envoy for climate change, said during the 28th …

Published: December 12,2023 By HOU LIQIANG  A man takes a photo of posters on display for the COP28 climate conference in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates on Friday. WANG ZHENDONG/XINHUA China supports the initiative by G20 countries to triple global renewable energy capacity by 2030, said XieZhenhua, China’s special envoy …

Published: December 12,2023 By Stephen Ndegwa People hold flags of Vietnam and China for a photo in Shanghai, China, October 31, 2020. /CFP For obvious reasons, the United States has lately made forays into Vietnam. But maybe the reasons are not that obvious to those yet to discern the superpower’s strategy of …

Published: December 11,2023 By Alex Lo The US has been ruthlessly militarising what some Pentagon strategists have called the island chains of defence in the Indo-Pacific with quiet ‘Five Eyes’ help There are many straits and passages with unfamiliar names across the Indo-Pacific. Some are potential flashpoints in the event of a regional war. …

Published: December 11,2023 Actors from the Zhejiang Wu Opera Research Center take the curtain call after the celebration performance of the 60th anniversary of China-Kenya diplomatic relations in Nairobi, Kenya, on Sept 5, 2023. (PHOTO / XINHUA) Members of Kenya-China Alumni Association on Saturday celebrated in Nairobi, the capital of …

Published:December 10,2023 UN Security Council members at Friday’s meeting in New York City./ David Dee Delgado/Reuters A senior Chinese diplomat said China is deeply disappointed that the U.S. vetoed a United Nations (UN) Security Council resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. The resolution, drafted by the United Arab …

Published:December 10,2023 Namibia’s founding President Sam Nujoma addresses the ceremony celebrating the 10th anniversary of Chinese-invested Swakop Uranium’s Husab mine since its commencement of operations at the mine, near the town of Swakopmund in the Erongo region of west-central Namibia, Dec. 8, 2023. (Xinhua/Chen Cheng) Chinese-invested Swakop Uranium’s Husab mine …