The high-profile meetings among the world's top leaders this month - from the Nov 5-11 APEC conference in Beijing to the G20 summit in Brisbane on Nov 15-16 - have raised hopes of finding solutions to the rising traditional and non-traditional security problems across the globe, as well as the geopolitical issues arising out of the Ukraine crisis.
In an important move, President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Barack Obama denounced all forms of terrorism during their talks on Wednesday, and pledged to fight them together in the spirit of the Charter of the United Nations and international norms.
Apple CEO Tim Cook recently announced that he is gay, sparking discussions across the world. Some people say the announcement will bring benefits to Apple. Still others say Cook's announcement shows Apple is making efforts to maintain its diversified corporate image.
The outfits worn by APEC leaders during their conference in Beijing have a formal name: "New Chinese Tunics".
Recent media reports on an 8-year-old girl forced to live in a pigsty in a village of a county in Sichuan province has exposed the legal vacuum in the protection of minors, says an article in Yangzi Evening News. Excerpts:
The administrative punishment given to the head of a local power station in Henan province for ordering his subordinate to sever electricity supply to a KTV bar with whose manager he had a quarrel and thus caused a blackout in the entire area, is not enough for the abuse of power.
Even though President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Barack Obama held summit talks on Tuesday and Wednesday following the 2014 APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, the Sino-US relationship still has uncertainties.
Legend has it that Emperor Yingzheng of the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC) sent Xu Fu, one of his sorcerers, to a legendary island called Penglai on the eastern end of the sea to look for the elixir of life.
THE TALKS BETWEEN PRESIDENT XI JINPING and visiting US President Barack Obama in the past two days have turned out to be productive. Impressive consensuses have been reached on such topics as trade and investment, anti-terror collaboration, dispute resolution and crisis control, to name but a few.
China and the United States hold obviously diverse opinions on how to define their new type of major-country relationship.
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation is meant to liberalize many profitable fields: free trade, innovative growth, and land and sea connectivity. This is fine. But it should also usher in a new Asia-Pacific culture, and here is why:
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