The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is proving to be an international relations milestone. It is also helping rewrite the mechanism of change in the world order.
The one thing foreigners complain most about in China is public toilets. A retired pilot, who had lived overseas for more than 40 years, once wrote me a letter, saying: "In the autumn of 2013, I came across a group of some 100 German tourists during my trip to the Three Gorges.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council, China's cabinet, jointly issued an important document recently encouraging people to overcome all institutional and psychological barriers to accelerate innovation-driven development, coupled with appropriate institutional and legal framework by 2020.
Sticking with its biggest ally the United States, Japan has decided not to apply for founding membership of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank before the March 31 deadline.
Grieving Christians prayed, sang and clapped hands at an Easter Sunday service at a Catholic church in Garissa, a Kenyan town where Islamic extremists killed 148 people in an attack on a school.
All United Nations Security Council resolutions related to Iran's nuclear program will be lifted immediately if a final deal is agreed, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday, stressing the benefits to Iran of this week's negotiations.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's chief of staff and a former ambassador to the United States, who was also a senior member of Najib's party, were among six people killed in a helicopter crash near the capital, officials said on Sunday.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will visit Teheran for high level meetings on Tuesday, despite recent tensions over the Saudi-led bombing operation in Yemen.
China has resolved to build a stronger military to meet the needs of safeguarding its land and people, as well as its growing interests overseas. But this legitimate and reasonable choice has incurred unnecessary concerns and even finger pointing from the outside world.
China's endless innovation upgrading, from Alibaba's "face-brushing" shopping model, to the "car networking" system of Datang Telecom and Haier's "air box" for wireless connections to home appliances, will inject an inexhaustible vitality into its economy.
AT A RECENT environmental supervision conference, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said it had finished analyzing the chief air pollution sources in nine major cities nationwide. Exhaust fume from vehicles was the major pollutant in Beijing, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Shenzhen. Vehicle exhaust emissions and dust were the primary pollutants in Tianjin, Shanghai and Ningbo. Comments:
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