Pretending to be "victims" is an art that Japanese militarists and right-wingers mastered long ago and still manipulate repeatedly to veil their aggressiveness.
Someone has said truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep. This could be the reason why a destructive sect, whose doctrines are anything but truth, can fool many people into becoming its adherents.
The recent plunge in gold prices is a reminder of how little we know about the impact that ultra-low interest rates can have on the global financial system. If the world economy, bitterly shaken by the 2008 global financial crisis, is to avoid another crisis, policymakers across the world better open their eyes to the potential dangers of keeping interest rates too low for too long.
James G. McGann, director of Think Tanks and Civil Society Program at the University of Pennsylvania, heads the team that prepares a report on global think tanks every year. Since 2006, when the yearly process started, the ranking in the report has been taken as an important reference point for the think tanks' quality and influence. In an interview with Li Yang at the Center for China and Globalization, a think tank in Beijing, McGann tells China Daily the opportunities and challenges for Chinese think tanks as they try to go global.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein issued a statement on July 7 saying China's new National Security Law "raises many concerns due to its extraordinarily broad scope, coupled with the vagueness of its terminology and definitions".
China's top political advisor Yu Zhengsheng is on an official visit to Thailand, the first stop on his two-nation tour, which will also take him to Indonesia.
It was the deal no one expected.
Global economic governance is not friendly to emerging economies' transformation. In recent years, growth in emerging economies has slowed down because of double extrusion of "re-industrialization" in developed countries and more and more serious homogeneous competition among emerging economies.
A "sex video" allegedly recorded in a fitting room of a clothes store in Beijing's Sanlitun area has gone viral after being uploaded on the Internet on July 14. The 1-minute video showing a man and a woman having sex has reportedly been shared millions of times on social media platforms like Weibo and WeChat.
Since the beginning of this year, Premier Li Keqiang has held 22 State Council executive meetings, which have issued many policies and regulations on economic reform and social development, including streamlining administration and delegating power to the lower levels and establishing social credit rating code. Many may see it otherwise, but it is normal for the central government to intensively introduce policies in half a year.
By including Japan's controversial sites in its World Heritage list, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has helped Japan cover or glorify one of its past wartime atrocities. The 23 sites include coal mines, steel works and shipyards from 1850 to 1910 that exemplify how Japan became the first Asian nation to enter the modern industrial age.
China said on Friday that Thailand's repatriation of more than 100 Uygurs to China is normal cooperation between countries as well as an international obligation, adding that China will not accept politicization of the issue by foreign governments and other parties.
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