Opinions

Xi concept on ecology helps guide world

When President Xi returned to Yucun during an inspection tour of Zhejiang province in March, he again underlined the fundamental importance of ecological conservation in the country’s sustainable development. He said that “the environment itself means the economy. If you protect the environment, you will receive rewards from the environment”. …

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Sudan, Egypt stress necessity of reaching binding deal on Nile Dam

Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok speaks at a joint press conference with his Egyptian counterpart Mostafa Madbouly (not in the picture) in Khartoum, Sudan, on Aug. 15, 2020. Sudan and Egypt on Saturday reiterated importance of reaching a binding agreement regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) with commitment to …

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Chinese COVID-19 vaccine shows promising trial results: study

An inactivated COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by China is safe and generates an immune response, according to data from clinical trials published in The Journal of the American Medical Association this week. The research paper provided an interim analysis of the phase-1 and phase-2 clinical trials of an inactivated COVID-19 …

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Huawei sows its technology seeds in African market

The US opposition to Huawei 5G technologies coupled with recent ban by the UK go beyond the so-called security threats to their national securities. The opposition to Huawei including TikTok social media platform has become part of the latest China-US diplomatic spat. The crisis has escalated into a tit-for-tat between …

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China offers great lessons to Africa on Poverty Alleviation

This year, China will win the war against extreme poverty, leading to building a moderately prosperous society, and a crucial step towards realizing the Chinese Dream. In just a period of 7 years from 2012 to the end of last year 2019, extreme poverty in China fell from 98.99million to …

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Why accusing China of delaying global response to COVID-19 isn’t fair

Editor’s note: The Trump administration has repeatedly criticized China for its response to COVID-19. Recently, U.S. HHS Secretary Alex Azar, during his controversial visit to Taiwan, once again berated China for “choosing not to work with the world on dealing with the pandemic.” Such comments have become overused tactics in …

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Mali protests resume as thousands call for president to resign

Thousands of people took to the streets of Mali’s rainy capital Bamako on Tuesday renewing calls for President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to step down despite international mediation efforts to resolve a political crisis. Protests led by an opposition coalition called M5-RFP have raged since June, caused by contested local elections …

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Chinese envoy calls for efforts to sustain peace amid COVID-19

Zhang Jun, China’s permanent representative to the United Nations, on Wednesday called for efforts to build and sustain peace amid COVID-19 through a people-centered approach. “Experience of many countries shows that as long as we put people and life first, we can develop a set of effective methods to fight …

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Isolating China won’t boost US security

The White House’s orders banning transactions with ByteDance and Tencent, the owners of TikTok and WeChat respectively, on the pretext that the two apps “threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States” is part of the administration’s “Clean Network to Safeguard America’s Assets” program to ban …

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Africa must help more women to embrace technology

The digital economy is crucial in today’s world. It’s a pillar on which world economies hedge their future. Unfortunately, women in Africa’s informal sector have very low exposure and access to digital services. Due to the developing state of all African countries, a majority of the female population lives in …

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