Opinions

Published: December 26, 2021 By Gerald Mbanda A view of a cotton farm in Xinjiang on Friday Photo: Li Xuanmin/GT The recent signing of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act into law by US President Joe Biden is a politically motivated move and an act of provocation aimed at destabilizing and isolating China.  The so called forced labour in Xinjiang is a lie that U.S. authorities invented and want to use it …

Published: December 26, 2021 In this aerial photo, vehicles pave a section of a cross-desert expressway with asphalt in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 16, 2021. (Xinhua/Gao Han) The first cross-desert expressway in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region officially opened to traffic on Saturday, cutting travel time between cities …

Published: December 25, 2021 By Anthony Moretti Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021. /Getty A new report from the China Society for Human Rights Studies (CSHRS) may be ignored throughout the United States, which would be inappropriate. Instead, the claims made about the shortcomings …

Published: December 25, 2021 Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday hailed the Chinese-built Nairobi Expressway as a key infrastructure project. Kenyatta said that the highway is bound to reduce the traffic gridlock that people have experienced and that has added to the cost of doing business in the country. “That …

Published: December 24,2021 Voters wait to cast ballots at a polling station in Whampoa, Hong Kong, south China, Dec. 19, 2021. Xinhua/Wang Shen — Electoral Affairs Commission official said election was conducted in an open, fair and honest manner. — Newly-elected lawmakers and authorities in Hong Kong have highlighted the significance of the …

Published: December 24,2021 Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday evening commissioned the Chinese-invested Global Trade Center in the capital city Nairobi. Kenyatta flipped the switch to light up the 42-floor, 184-meter Global Trade Center (GTC) skyscraper that has been under construction since October 2014 by the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC). “As …

Published: December 23,201 By Staff Writer Fourth world conference on women held in Beijing in 1995. Photo: courtesy  Law makers in China this week submitted a revised draft law to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Women.  The current law said to …

Desolation on the open road, in Tanzania, which seeks to develop railway infrastructure connecting Tanzania to the DRC, as a part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). One of the defining African principles of the modern age is the principle of Ubuntu- a deep appreciation of our common humanity. …

Published: December 22,2021 By Staff Writer  The dust is still in the air with many questions on American democracy, after President Joe Biden hosted a summit on democracy on December 9-10, 2021. Having invited some countries and intentionally left out others was widely viewed as a partisan summit, rather than a learning experience for …

Published: December 22, 2021 A batch of COVID-19 vaccine donated by China arrives at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Dec. 20, 2021. Zimbabwe on Monday received a batch of Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine donated by China, which will boost the country’s vaccination campaign as it battles the …