President Xi Jinping loves to talk about a "community of shared destiny", and now he is applying it to cyberspace. This is good news to everyone worried about a potential China-US, or China-West, standoff in the virtual world.
The meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the sidelines of the United Nations climate change conference in Paris last month was described by a Japanese media outlet as China cozying up to Japan.
AN EMPLOYEE at a local hydroelectric station in Baoji, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, reportedly found the body of a 17-year-old girl in the reservoir, but did not retrieve it until her family paid him 1,500 yuan ($232).
ACCORDING TO a statement issued by the State Council, China's Cabinet, on Tuesday, more than 16,000 government websites in China have been shut down since the end of November because of the poor services they offered.
A MAN IN XI'AN, capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi province, who found it difficult to assemble a bed he had bought online and discovered poor-quality wood was used, posted a negative review about the e-shop. Less than 30 minutes later, he had received 8,294 spam text messages along with unsolicited phone calls, he told the media. The Prosecutorial Daily comments:
China holds a pivotal role in the Internet. It had more than 650 million Internet users by the end of last year and it is the largest and fastest growing information and communications technology consumer market in the world.
China's attempts to cooperate with the United States to safeguard the strategic stability of cyberspace have been welcomed, as the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong have suffered a series of high-profile cyber attacks this year, according to the latest PricewaterhouseCoopers Global State of Information Security Survey.
The hearing on the merits of the South China Sea arbitration case further reveals the true colors of the Philippines.
The first rise in US interest rates in almost a decade has been long overdue. After leading the world economy into seven years of super cheap money, it is urgent that the world's largest economy assume its duty to blaze a trail out of the dangerous lifestyle of zero interest rates.
Deepening regional integration and strengthening production capacity cooperation take priority on the agenda of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization members.