The 2014 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders' Week in Beijing came toward an end with the completion of the two-day Economic Leaders' Meeting on Tuesday evening.
For some media outlets in the United States, President Barack Obama's trip to China this week was defined by his chewing gum while stepping out of a limousine and the subsequent comments by Chinese bloggers, or his awkward interaction with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The substance of the trip has largely been ignored.
THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC WHEELS must run at the same time in East Asia. This is the metaphor Chinese Premier Li Keqiang used to indicate how cooperation between China and ASEAN countries should proceed to promote regional peace and stability in a speech at the Ninth East Asia Summit on Thursday in the Myanmar capital.
China has long advocated signing a friendship treaty with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, in the hope of stabilizing relations on the firm basis of law. It's a promising idea, and it will increase the political trust between the rising country and these key neighbors if it comes into reality. Let's hope progress toward the treaty can be made at the summit.
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.
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