Senior diplomat points out ‘enormous benefits’ of engagement to two countries China’s senior diplomat, Yang Jiechi, urged Washington on Friday to avoid strategic miscalculation about China-US relations and work with Beijing to bring bilateral ties back to the right track. Yang, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central …
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China’s victory over COVID-19 underpinned by noble values
In early May 2020, President Xi Jinping said that it took China over a month to achieve initial success in curbing the spread of the coronavirus and three months to win a decisive victory in defending Wuhan City and Hubei Province. For China, with a large population of 1.4 billion, …
Read More »Experts say China key to global recovery
China’s swift pandemic response puts nation in position to play key role in global recovery China could emerge from the coronavirus pandemic with a more dominant economy, replacing the United States as the world’s largest within the current decade, according to experts. The world’s second-largest economy recorded 3.2 percent growth …
Read More »Can China show the way to deliver South Africa from poverty?
How can South Africa build a moderately prosperous society? Is it possible, under the current South Africa-China relationship, for China to serve as a vector catalyst for building a moderately prosperous society? The per capita disposable income in South Africa could easily challenge that of prosperous nations such as Kuwait …
Read More »Morocco’s role in the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought China and Arab nations closer together through the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum and the mechanism of political parties’ dialogue as they take concrete steps to build a China-Arab community with a shared future, officials and experts said. The ninth ministerial meeting of the forum rolled …
Read More »Nations should reject US coercion to choose sides
Many countries have voiced concerns for being forced to choose between China and the United States amid the two countries’ rising disputes on trade and national security, and their refusal to make such a choice will be critical to the future of a multilateral world. Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien …
Read More »Xi stresses modernization of national defense, armed forces
Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has stressed advancing the modernization of the national defense and armed forces. Xi made the remarks while presiding over a group study session of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on strengthening the modernization of …
Read More »The significance of “Belt and Road” for Africa integration
I had a chance to visit the great nation of China twice in 2011 and 2013 for about ten days each. It was a very short time to explore such a big nation within ten days. At that moment, I visited Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Hunan. Due to my …
Read More »Africa and China share common approach to climate change
Weather patterns across the globe are signalling that climate change will bring about catastrophic calamities to all of us. Increasingly, droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, rising sea levels, warming oceans, thawing permafrost, changing rain and snow patterns are adversely heart-rending. Africa and China joined the rest of the world at the UN’s …
Read More »China achieves key independent tech with full global service of BeiDou
Chinese President Xi Jinping attended a ceremony to mark the launch of full global services of the BeiDou-3 Navigation Satellite System on Friday 31/07/2020 in Beijing, indicating that China’s domestically development and independently operated global satellite navigation system has been fully completed. The ceremony signals that China is an independent …
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