Abe still driving wedge between Japan and China

Over the past five years, the world has waited and hoped for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to acknowledge the truth in his perception of history. However, he has constantly let the world down.

Redefine pyramid schemes

It is tragic that three energetic college students eager to find jobs to ease their families' economic burdens died after being lured into pyramid selling schemes.

US must not link trade with DPRK issue

One day before US President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum allowing the US Trade Representative to consider launching an investigation into "unfair Chinese trade practices", National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster said China's help was vital to resolving the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue and the United States was not looking for a trade conflict.

Boycott of Chinese goods will hurt India

Amid the ongoing standoff between Indian and Chinese soldiers in the Donglang area of the Sikkim sector of the China-India border, several ultranationalist Indian politicians of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and some right-wing Hindu organizations are trying to incite Indian citizens to boycott Chinese goods. The call to boycott Chinese goods is a frog-in-the-well kind of perspective, which will not help India but could deter Chinese enterprises from investing in India and thus harm bilateral cooperation.

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Unique role in building strong bond

Editor's note: The China-Africa Media Forum hosted by the Information Office of the State Council and co-organized by Xinhua News Agency and Independent Media Group of South Africa was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Monday. Below are excerpts from the speeches of the participants.

Great potential for media cooperation

Working together for better mutual understanding

We must never lose sight of our role as society's watchdogs. We must hold our communities, our nations, BRICS, to account. We tell the stories wanting them to succeed, it is only right that we be vigilant in exposing cases where these stories have not succeeded because of individual greed or the corruption of officials.

Sickness in US society will not be easy to cure

For a long time, people in the United States took pride in the belief that one of the things that made their nation great was a system that was designed to encourage principled disagreements so that people could achieve consensus through reasoned debate.

Wrong to morally kidnap stars

A social media post demanding Wu Jing, the actor-director of the popular action film Wolf Warrior II, donate more than he already had in the aftermath of the recent Jiuzhaigou earthquake in Southwest China's Sichuan province, has sparked fierce online debate about whether it is reasonable to morally blackmail celebrities to donate money after a natural disaster.

Heartwarming tale of customers fulfilling their legal responsibility

WHEN A MAGNITUDE 7 EARTHQUAKE hit Jiuzhaigou county in Southwest China's Sichuan province on Aug 8, Xi'an, capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi province, also felt the quake. In one of shopping malls in the city, many customers who were eating fled without paying for their meals, thinking an earthquake was hitting the city. Yet the next day many of them returned to pay. Thepaper.cn comments:

Decentralization bitcoin's Achilles' heel

THE PRICE OF THE DIGITAL CURRENCY BITCOIN hit $4,045 on Sunday, almost 3.23 times its exchange value early this year. Economic Information Daily commented on Monday: