Region needs new security set-up

As a responsible power in the Asia-Pacific region, China is committed to improving the lives of the people in the region, establishing good relations with neighbors and developing friendly ties with other countries, rather than establishing its hegemony.

Letters

Eating dog meat a personal choice

From the Chinese press

Local officials ignoring facts

Vietnam violating agreements

Hanoi should take history into consideration, stop disturbing Chinese operations and be constructive about partnership

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Japan should stop playing with fire

On June 11, the Japanese Ministry of Defense speculated that Chinese jet fighters drew "unusually close" to its surveillance aircraft. Japan even protested to China as if the claims were true.

For a fairer judiciary

JUDICIAL SYSTEM REFORM IS THE ONLY WAY that building the rule of law can turn from being a slogan into reality. The pilot moves that will be carried out on trial basis in a total of six municipalities and provinces can be expected to bring about major progress in the establishment of a relatively independent judicial mechanism.

Abe adheres to abnormality

The Foreign Affairs Committee of Japan's House of Representatives last week adopted a resolution criticizing China's drilling operations off the Xisha Islands, claiming they are exacerbating tensions in the South China Sea.

Harnessing the competitive streak

China's State Council recently unveiled a comprehensive blueprint for capital market reform until 2020, in which it identifies two key objectives: "to support open, fair, and integral market processes, and to protect investors, particularly the legal rights of small investors". Achieving these goals, as the blueprint recognizes, will require policymakers to weigh market autonomy against State authority, innovation against stability, investor protection against caveat emptor and the temptation of rapid reform against the need for pragmatism. Can it be done?

Partnerships unified for a cause

Today's business leaders operate in a rapidly changing landscape. Digitally empowered consumers and employees, rapidly changing technology, explosive numbers of non-governmental organizations and causes, constantly changing markets and market conditions, intense competition for talent - all these and more create a whirlwind of demands on leaders. The only constant is the pace of change and it's breakneck speed.

Letters

Use high-tech properly

From the Chinese press

Disrespect to religious practices