Both Beijing and Washington emerged from their latest dialogue more upbeat about their relations and committed to working together, which proves the world's most important bilateral relationship is far from beyond repair.
A recent Financial Times report forecast that China's changed manufacturing pattern might have a significant influence on the global manufacturing sector and accordingly on the global trade pattern.
The National People's Congress Standing Committee reviewed a draft legal document on Wednesday, which plans to make all State staff swear an oath to the Constitution. Comments:
The central government has set up a leading team to promote the upgrading of China's manufacturing industry, so it can become a global manufacturing power by 2049, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Comments:
All parties involved in human trafficking in China, including those who buy abducted children, face tougher punishments in the ninth draft amendment to the Criminal Law submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Wednesday.
The opposition "pan-democracy" camp vetoed the Hong Kong Special Administration Region government's universal suffrage plan for the 2017 chief executive's election on June 18, and thus halted the five-step constitutional reform at the third stage and made it very difficult for the SAR government to restart the reform all over again.
The Philippines held two military drills, one with the United States and the other with Japan, this week in the South China Sea, where it has several maritime disputes with China.
The development of manufacturing industry has been a key contributor to China's economic transformation. This will be so in China's next stages of development too.
The US State Department in Foggy Bottom in Washington looked quite different from the rest of the year early this week when the 7th China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue and 6th China-US High-Level Consultation on People-to-People Exchange were held there.
It is unbelievable but true: 800 tons of smuggled frozen meat that customs officers uncovered had been kept in storage for as long as 40 years.
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