Friends from the international science community, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am delighted to attend the 2014 annual meeting of the Global Research Council in Beijing.
Editor's Note: The following is adapted from a speech by Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jianchao at the opening ceremony of the Asia Cooperation Dialogue Forum on Silk Road Cooperation in Lanzhou, Gansu province on May 28.
THE VIETNAMESE AUTHORITIES ARE GOING to great lengths to contain the economic fallout from the violent rampages in the country two weeks ago.
The world's biggest and second-biggest economies have reached a consensus to build a new type of major-country relationship, in which cooperation and the pursuit of positive results should become the mainstream despite their differences.
The world fears a "face-off" between Japan and China at the Shangri-La Dialogue, to be held in Singapore from May 30 to June 1. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is scheduled to deliver a speech at the "track one" annual security forum, which is highly likely to invite criticism from Chinese diplomats.
The $400-billion, 30-year natural gas deal just announced by China and Russia is the biggest single trade agreement in history. With this deal, Russia has signaled a major and sharp pivot of its economic and strategic focus to Asia. Russia's "pivot to Asia" and dramatically enhanced relations with China, which this deal and related agreements signify, will have substantial long-term implications for Asia and more broadly for the Asia Pacific region.
On May 19, the United States Justice Department indicted five Chinese military officers on charges of hacking into computers and stealing valuable trade secrets from leading US companies. This is the first time that the US has leveled such criminal charges against a foreign country.
In general, China has experienced three different stages in promoting and guaranteeing its citizens' economic and social rights; with the first stage starting from the founding of the new China in 1949 to the initiation of the reform and opening-up policy in 1978, during which the government took active measures to boost people's economic and social rights.
FOUR OF THE FIVE CULPRITS OF THE TERRORIST attack on Thursday came from a poverty-stricken county in the south of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
With no end in sight to Thailand's political turmoil, it is natural for some people to worry that China's traditionally sound ties with the country may suffer. However, such concern is groundless, says a Xinhua News Agency commentary.
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