For the second time in two months, President Xi Jinping is visiting Russia, this time to attend the BRICS summit and the 15th meeting of the Council of Shanghai Cooperation Organization Heads of State in Ufa, capital of Russia's Bashkortostan republic, on July 8-10.
With the "urban disease" becoming increasingly evident in Beijing, relocation of departments with non-capital functions outside the city has become a serious issue.
Following a protest in Istanbul on Saturday against the alleged "mistreatment of Muslim Uygur people in China", China's embassy in the Turkish capital Ankara has warned its residents traveling in the country to be careful and stay away from the protestors. A group of Korean tourists were reportedly mistaken as Chinese and attacked by the protesters outside the Topkapi Palace.
The ongoing surge in China's production of new energy cars is more than welcome. Although the total number of green cars is far from enough to ensure a substantial change in China's energy consumption pattern anytime soon, its accelerated growth should give a huge boost to policymakers at home and abroad who are desperate to find ways to slow global warming and spur economic growth.
An exhibition on the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression opened in Beijing on Tuesday, the anniversary of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937, which led to Japan's full-scale aggression of China.
The two-day BRICS summit meeting due to open in Ufa, Russia, on Wednesday is expected to offer member states an important platform for exchanges aimed at pursuing development, promoting cooperation and mapping out win-win results amid increasingly complicated international and regional economic situations.
A tribunal established at the request of the Philippines is currently holding hearings at The Hague to examine its jurisdiction in the South China Sea Arbitration (the Philippines v. China).
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident, or the July 7 Incident in 1937, marks Japan's full-scale invasion of China and the start of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-1945).
Russian President Vladimir Putin will host two important international summits, one of the BRICS group on July 8-9 and the other of Shanghai Cooperation Organizations members on July 9-10.
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