While Chinese people have started recognizing the value of soft power in expanding national interests, our neighbor to east, South Korea, has been using its TV plays to further its image for quite some time now.
After holding intensive political meetings, engaging in lively exchanges with young football and ice hockey players, and signing cooperation documents during his March 28-30 visit to the Czech Republic, President Xi Jinping and his Czech counterpart Milos Zeman visited the 850-year-old Strahov Library in Prague. After being introduced by the museum curator to the collections on Chinese-Czech exchanges dating back to 300-500 years, the two presidents stepped onto the veranda to get a bird's eye view of Prague while sipping their farewell beer.
Thailand has reportedly decided to solely fund the construction of a 250-kilometer high-speed railway between Bangkok and the city of Nakhon Ratchasima.
Moody's and Standard & Poor's recently lowered their ratings on the outlook for China's government credit from "stable" to "negative", citing China's slower-than-expected efforts to advance economic rebalancing, a deteriorating leverage rate for both the government and enterprises, arduous reform challenges, and uncertainties involving its capability to carry out the needed reforms.
THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF SHENZHEN, South China's Guangdong province, has banned electric bicycles and tricycles that do not meet the national standards from April 1.
ON SATURDAY, a pile-up on the expressway linking Shanghai and neighboring Jiangsu province in East China killed three people and injured over 20. That could have been avoided had bad driving habits not been so common, said an editorial on thepaper.cn on Sunday:
A WOMAN, who works in Beijing, couldn't return to Kunming, capital of Yunnan province in Southwest China, to sweep her parents' tombs. She hoped to find a tomb-sweeping service to do it for her but failed. Public cemeteries in the city have stopped the service for some time because there was little demand. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Monday:
Despite the weakening of its leadership, the United States is still trying to capitalize on its remaining advantages and the political clout it enjoys in the world to maintain its dominant status in a fast-developing multi-polar era.
To bridge the gaps in data availability, we (Standard Chartered) conducted our semiannual proprietary survey of China's property market in January-February, focusing on unlisted developers in lower-tier cities and polling senior managers at property developers in six second-and third-tier cities.
The central government will prevent local authorities from unnecessarily changing the names of roads, bridges, buildings and residential complexes, especially with capricious foreign and bizarre names, Li Liguo, the minister of Civil Affairs, said at a recent conference on geographical names.
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