Opinions

By Colin Speakman SONG CHEN/CHINA DAILY Chinese leaders have been involved in a swathe of group meetings, mainly by video conferencing, this month, representing important opportunities for multilateral cooperation. These have ranged from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization through to the 12th BRICS summit, the APEC inter-governmental forum and topped off …

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the African continent has reached 2,215,216 as of Friday afternoon, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Friday. The continental disease control and prevention agency said in a statement that the death toll related to the pandemic stood …

“Aside from the virus and its impacts, another adversary has been plaguing our response: misinformation and disinformation. COVID-19 is a communications crisis. It is not simply a pandemic. It is an ‘infodemic.’ And this has cost lives,” said UN General Assembly President Volkan Bozkir. UN General Assembly President Volkan Bozkir …

Chinese Embassy in Rwanda on Wednesday handed over 333 sets of desks and chairs to FAWE Girls’ School in Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda, to help its students keep physical distancing so as to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and support education development in the nation. The donation, worth …

This is South Africa’s second presidency during its two-year (2019-2020) elected term on the UN Security Council. December will also be the country’s final month on the council during its current term. South Africa on Tuesday assumed the rotating monthly presidency of the United Nations Security Council. During the month, …

Ren Guoqiang, a spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defense, criticized a Japanese report for making groundless comments on China’s national defense and military modernization. Questioned about the “China Security Report 2021” released by Japan’s National Institute for Defense Studies in mid-November, Ren Guoqiang noted at a press conference that …

Where is the European or American equivalent/alternative to China’s BRI? Where is it? If Chinese loans are deceptive and are a trap and are wrong – where are the Western alternatives? How come our “shared” values do not exclude building our infrastructure? As deputy chief of staff to Liberian President …

I came across this story from my favorite University in China – Peking University, talking about the love of books by Prof. Xu Xianglin a political scholar at the school of Government. I found the story inspiring and worth sharing for those who have the passion to seek for knowledge …

By: Mweusi Karake White mercenary army- Black press-gungs In my last article, I showed you pictures of children whose hands were cut off because their families produced less rubber than the quota assigned. To enforce such a brutal slavery, King Leopold II, could not just rely on the Belgian army. …

Twenty years ago, Chinese and African leaders gathered in Beijing to inaugurate the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). A new era was thus opened for China-Africa relations. Over the two decades, by acting along the prevailing trend of peace, development and cooperation, FOCAC has established itself as a pacesetter for …