The intensification of China's anti-corruption campaign and the investigations against an increasing number of "tigers", or high-ranking corrupt officials, have given rise to a debate on whether people who have risen from a humble family background are suited to occupy high positions.
Policymakers may breathe freely again after the passing of the roller-coaster month of July when the Greek debt crisis and the Chinese stock market plunge almost spun out of control. But since economic headwinds remain strong, owing to worse-than-expected global growth and world trade this year, how worried should the world be about China's slowdown?
Nothing would have made me happier than knowing the International Olympic Committee has awarded the 2022 Winter Olympic Games to Beijing at its 128th session in Kuala Lumpur on Friday.
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.
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