Senior US leaders invited sharp criticism at home for not attending last week's solidarity rally in Paris against the terrorist attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in which 12 people were killed. As a result, US Secretary of State John Kerry was in Paris this week to make up for the mistake.
The next 18 months to two years will be a watershed period in relations between the European Union and China.
Just a few weeks after a female migrant worker died in Shanxi province after her hair was trampled upon by police, a 13-year-old girl jumped off the 16th floor of a building under construction in Jizhou, Hebei province; both tragedies happened when migrant workers met difficulties in collecting their wages for the year. Comments:
For many investors, yesterday is "black Monday" because the Shanghai Composite Index sank 260 points to close at 3,116 points. During its swings the lowest point was even 3,095. Comments:
Recent corruption cases have reportedly exposed the deterioration of the political ecology in local authorities.
China released the summary of its overall economic performance in 2014 on Tuesday, which showed a 7.4 percent GDP growth, the lowest since 1990 and 0.1 percentage point lower than in 2013.
China is reforming the pension and wage system of civil servants and employees of government-funded public institutions, which covers about 50 million people.
Sad stories about migrant workers continue to occupy media headlines. On Monday, a 14-year-old girl fell to her death at an under-construction mansion in Jizhou, Hebei province, where she had gone to get her father's and other migrant workers' wage arrears. And a few days ago, a woman was reportedly beaten to death at a police station in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, for demanding her wages.
The wildly circulated news on the Internet that civil servants salaries are being raised was "confirmed" with the publication of an article in Hong Kong-based Wen Wei Po on Sunday and a positive response from a senior government official a day later.
On the surface, the Jan 7 attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris is a clear sign of the intense conflict between believers in different religions - Jews and Muslims, and Christians and Muslims - which has given rise to the anti-Islam, not just anti-terrorist, movement in the West.
On Jan 14, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, primarily operating in Yemen, claimed responsibility in a video for the terrorist attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris that killed 12 people on Jan 7.
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