International treaties offer an additional choice for China to hunt corrupt officials that flee overseas. For example, China hasn't signed a bilateral extradition treaty with Canada but both are members of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, so it can resort to specific articles to net corruption suspects.
The G20 Summit in Brisbane has, it seems, taken a step further than the APEC conference in Beijing in the fight against climate change.
Education department authorities have rubbished rumors that "985" and "211" projects have been cancelled. The "985" and "211" projects are decades-old national education plans to build some key institutions of higher learning in China. But it is high time that the government stopped running institutions of higher learning in a biased manner, says an article in Beijing News. Excerpts:
Although the possibility of any exit from the euro has basically been left behind, both socially and economically, the European Union is still very sick. Several core economies such as France and Italy may slip into their third recession in six years.
The common problems that China and the United States confront together are larger and more dangerous than the divisive issues that threaten relations between the world's two largest economies
Premier Li Keqiang reiterated that China's relationship with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a priority in Beijing's neighborhood diplomacy during the Ninth East Asia Summit in Myanmar on Friday.
With the world making efforts to drum up a new decisive deal on curbing greenhouse gas emissions for the 2020 to 2030 period in Paris next year, it seems that Brussels and Washington have also started to jostle for global leadership in climate governance.
JOINT EFFORTS BY AS MANY COUNTRIES AS as possible, major powers in particular, are essential to achieve sustainable global economic growth, which is of the upmost importance for everyone.
International Monetary Fund data estimates that China might keep an annual growth rate of 7.7 percent while the global average is 3.3, and its contribution rate to global growth will be 27.8 percent, the percentage could be higher considering multi-indexes such as investment and trade.
The just concluded APEC conference is already being lauded as an unequivocal success. In particular, China's vision for the Free Trade Area of the Asia - Pacific has been hailed by one and sundry.
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