Some hawkish members of the Donald Trump team have repeatedly adopted war-like rhetoric about the incoming administration's trade relations with China and other developing countries. They seem to want to send the message that other countries need the United States more than the other way round.
After months of havering, Prime Minister Theresa May recently announced that the United Kingdom plans to make a clean break from the European Union and not opt for "anything that leaves us half-in, half-out".
THE LEAKING OF A DOCUMENT by a provincial meteorological bureau, instructing its affiliated agencies to suspend issuing smog alerts, aroused fierce discussions online because people worry who could protect their health without the alert system. The China Meteorological Administration responded that they suspended the alerts because they have different standards to the environmental protection departments, and the two are now discussing the issue. Beijing News comments:
AN INCREASING NUMBER OF MIGRANT WORKERS, particularly those born in the 1980s and 1990s, are choosing to celebrate Spring Festival in the cities where they work instead of returning to their hometowns. Guangzhou Daily commented on Wednesday:
A TRAVEL AGENT in Southwest China's Yunnan province posted a notice saying that it was not accepting bookings from residents from certain places. Beijing News commented on Thursday:
When the United States gave up on the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, many saw it was more than the unwinding of a trade deal, and instead saw it as marking the limits of the Pax Americana.
The world is in a state of great upheaval and faces uncertainties on an unprecedented scale: The upcoming US administration has noisily announced a break with the past without indicating a clear new direction, the European continent is more divided than ever, strategic trust is at a low point, and breathless national governments are in most cases not even able or willing to discuss broader issues of global concern.
Political and business leaders gathered together at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week to discuss the most pressing issues facing our planet and seek constructive and innovative solutions to them.
A puzzling occurrence to many Chinese visiting the United States in the last four years is that marijuana has been legalized by a growing number of states, and support for its use among the public is also rising.
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