The summit between the United States and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations at the Sunnylands estate in California on Monday and Tuesday highlights the growing significance of the US' relations with the 10-member Southeast Asian organization.
Is the world facing a "lost" decade as it continues to struggle to emerge from the global financial crisis that originated in the United States in 2008?
It is a shame that, despite their repeated, constant claims of commitment to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, the key stakeholding countries are once again in danger of looking on with folded arms as Pyongyang pushes the envelope.
One week after the riot in Hong Kong, the special administrative region is still trying to come to grips with what happened in the Mongkok streets.
THE MANAGERS OF A NURSING HOME in Tancheng in East China's Shandong province reportedly refused to allow the elderly residents to use the air conditioners as heaters despite the severe cold.
ON FRIDAY, the US Senate reportedly approved a bill to rename the square in front of China's embassy as "Liu Xiaobo Square".
A SHANGHAI WOMAN posted a breakup letter online after she was invited to visit her boyfriend's rural hometown in Central China's Jiangxi province on Chinese New Year's Eve, in which she said she was utterly "shocked" by how poor his family is.
Editor's note: The article is an excerpt of the Evaluation Report on the Security Situation in Surrounding Areas of China (2016), issued by the National Institute of International Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
During my trip to a coal-producing province, I found that officials at a road checkpoint played cards and the loser paid by working extra hours instead of handing over money. Before 2012 it was just the opposite - they quarreled with each other in order to work extra hours.
The surprising thing now is not that the Chinese economy is slowing, but that there are so many who seem surprised by this.
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