China seeks commitment from the European Union

During China's decades-long engagement on the global stage, the ruling rhetoric from the West is that Beijing is welcomed because of its growing economic clout. But the condition is that it should not only shoulder its due share of global responsibility but also obey international rules and commitments.

Dialogue and accommodation will ensure peace and stability

In recent years, the annual Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore has become a venue for some Western countries to point accusing fingers at China over sensitive regional issues, such as the South China Sea.

Paris accord okay without US

US President Donald Trump's recent announcement that he would withdraw the United States from the Paris climate change agreement will not reverse the global emissions reduction campaign.

Company quarrel delivers message that monopolies distort the market

ON THURSDAY, SF EXPRESS, the leading domestic delivery company, and Cainiao Network Technology, a company financially backed by Alibaba that provides technological support to delivery companies, shut down their data sharing. As a result, a large number of deliveries were affected. With the intervention of the State Post Bureau, the two resumed their data sharing on Saturday. ThePaper.cn comments:

Sign of progress not discrimination

GREEN HARBOR RED RIBBON SCHOOL, located in Linfen, North China's Shanxi province, is a special school for students infected with HIV. This year, 16 of the 36 students enrolled in the school will take the national college entrance examination. The local authorities have arranged a separate exam room for the 16 students. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

Rules for short-time car rental market will help drive it forward

ON THURSDAY, the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development co-issued a draft regulation on propelling the development of the short-time car rental industry to solicit public opinions. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

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Enhancing regional security cooperation

Editor's Note: The 16th Shangri-La Dialogue was held in Singapore from Friday to Sunday. The combined gist of the speeches made by four Chinese participants follows:

AI and the next revolution in military defense

Last week, AlphaGo, an artificial intelligence program developed by Google's DeepMind team, beat China's top go player Ke Jie in Wuzhen, East China's Zhejiang province, which suggests AI will occupy center stage in the next technological and industrial revolution.

Practical measures needed to avoid conflict at sea

At the last Shangri-La Dialogue and at other workshops in the Asia-Pacific region, how to enhance maritime confidence-building measures or prevent conflict at sea have always been hot topics.

Nuclear dangers in the Asia-Pacific region

When it comes to nuclear threats in the Asia-Pacific region, China faces the most daunting nuclear environment. The nuclear problem that China faces is not only confined to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's nuclear program, but also includes the deployment of other strategic offensive and defensive capabilities that could damage the strategic stability among major nuclear-weapon states.

New resource seen boosting energy

China's reserves of combustible ice, a natural gas hydrate, are estimated at 80 billion metric tons of oil equivalent, which suggests massive resource potential, the Ministry of Land and Resources said in Beijing on Friday.