Should a person feel ashamed for eating fish or wearing blue jeans?
While China is still struggling to qualify for the 2018 Football World Cup, it has set an ambitious goal to become a dominant soccer power in Asia by 2030 and a leading soccer power in the world by 2050.
Editor's note: After an investigation into the vaccine scandal in Shandong province, the State Council, China's Cabinet, held a meeting on April 13 and decided to punish hundreds of government employees, and pass a regulation aimed at strengthening vaccine management. The punishments meted out to government employees included dismissals and demotions. Following are some media reports in response to the decision:
The Centre of European Policy Studies, the European Union's leading think tank, issued a report recently outlining reasons why Beijing and Brussels should launch free trade agreement talks.
Washington deservedly received a warning and reminder from Beijing about the dangers of saber-rattling, after US warplanes conducted what the United States called a freedom of overflight operation near China's Huangyan Islands.
Japan's recent test flight of its first domestically developed X-2 stealth fighter jet has sparked extensive speculation about its intentions.
THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN WENZHOU, East China's Zhejiang province, has asked some residents to pay one-third of the value of their houses to extend their land use rights claiming the existing rights are close to expiring. The residents say the Property Law stipulates that land use rights "automatically renew" after expiration. An editorial on thepaper.cn:
THERE ARE REPORTS that some local governments allow officials at the age of 50, five years younger than the retirement age, to leave their posts and idle away the days until it is time for them to retire; some even get higher pay and more welfare. That's an abuse of power and waste of taxpayers' money, says an editorial on Southern Metropolis Daily:
THOUSANDS OF RESIDENTS were evacuated and a firefighter died in Jingjiang, East China's Jiangsu province, on Friday when poisonous and flammable chemicals caught fire. The blaze lasted more than 10 hours. The incident happened one month after the local safety department officials inspected the site, and Beijing News asks whether the inspection was merely a show:
A slew of bad news hit Hong Kong recently. On the financial side, downgrades of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's credit rating and ranking as an international financial center followed in quick succession. The real economy is faring no better because both visitor arrivals and retail sales registered sharp declines in the first two months of this year. Businesses fear that the decline is not cyclical but part of a secular downturn arising from Hong Kong's loss of competitiveness across many sectors.
Even though US presidential candidate Donald Trump's rivals in the Republican Party appear to be gaining some kind of momentum, it still looks as if the billionaire businessman is about to secure the nomination to contest one of the most powerful positions on the planet.
In the West, many scholars tend to compare the Communist Party of China with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. But one should view the Party in the context of China's thousands of years of civilization and history, rather than its recent history, say, from the First Opium War in 1840 onward.
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