The Heritage Foundation, in its recent report, "Assessing America's Ability to Provide for the Common Defense", has used a new index system to gauge the level of threat the United States faces in different parts of the world and to determine its preparedness for common defense with its allies.
With Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expected to make a statement on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, Japan is being haunted by its aggression against other Asian nations in the past century. People at home and abroad are still trying to awaken the nation's conscience to face squarely this part of its history, which Abe and his supporters have so far refused to do.
The Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, held in late October last year, made a strategic arrangement for national reunification in accordance with the law under the new conditions.
Farmers took away tons of substandard and counterfeit goods on March 10, which were supposed to be destroyed in a Xuzhou suburb in Jiangsu province, East China, ignoring law enforcement officers' warning not to do so. Among the goods were food and healthcare products, chemicals and electric wires.
Recently, China held an interim review meeting on the National Human Rights Action Plan (2012-15) which drew a lot of attention.
As the world prepares to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory against fascist forces in World War II and the triumph of the Chinese people in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-45), the spotlight will be on former fascist powers, especially Japan, and their attitude toward their war crimes.
The Supreme People's Procuratorate and Supreme People's Court may get better-looking ratings this year when their work reports are presented for voting at the National People's Congress, as each has something impressive to report.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's remark that the Japanese government should face up to its wartime crimes during her visit to Japan on Monday sent a good warning to the Japanese public that they are being misled by political bias.
AT A RECENT NEWS CONFERENCE at the National People's Congress, Yin Weimin, minister of Human Resources and Social Security, said that the ministry expects to draft a policy on later retirement ages this year and will submit it to the central leadership next year; it hopes to make a formal plan in 2017 and implement it in another five years. He said this is in order to fill in the gap of social security fund. Comments:
IN A RECENT INTERVIEW, LE LUONG MINH, current secretary-general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, said China's nine-dash line delineating its sovereignty in the South China Sea is "not binding", and that China's "illegal occupation" of islands and isles had affected the status quo and complicated the situation. Comments:
IN A RECENT transparency report on China's higher education released by the Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, some top universities including Peking University and Tsinghua University, failed to make it into the top 10 regarding information disclosure. Comments:
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