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:

Kid's desert walk exploitation, not character building

A 42-YEAR-OLD TV ANCHOR shared his 4-year-old daughter's physical exercises and willpower training on his micro-blog account, after taking her on a 76-kilometer walk through a desert in Gaotai, Northwest China's Gansu province, over four days. People's Daily comments:

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China's political system enjoys an edge

In the years immediately after the end of the Cold War, Western scholars were quite confident that Western-style "democracy" would eventually triumph over all other political systems, with Francis Fukuyama's book, The End of History and The Last Man, being a case in point.

People's health is indeed wealth for nation

Editor's note: The central leadership has taken several measures to promote sports and the sports industry to exhort more people to play sports or exercise regularly to lead a healthy lifestyle, because people's health is vital to the economic and social development. Two experts share their views on the issue with China Daily. Excerpts follow:

Commission to improve financial security

The recently established Financial Stability and Development Committee under the State Council, China's Cabinet, is another important move to strengthen the country's financial security and help the People's Bank of China, the central bank, to better manage macro-prudential affairs and prevent systemic risks.

Preventing financial risks vital to economy

At the National Financial Work Conference last month, President Xi Jinping emphasized the need to prevent systemic financial risks, because finance is the core competitiveness of a country and financial security is a significant part of national security. The goal of financial work is to serve the real economy while preventing risks, for which financial reform is necessary.

Trump asking too much from Beijing on peninsula issue

US President Donald Trump will reportedly sign an executive memorandum on Monday authorizing the US trade representative to determine whether to investigate the allegedly "unfair" Chinese trade practices, which could pave the way for punitive tariffs on Chinese exports.

India shooting itself in the foot

By persistently maintaining the standoff between its troops trespassing in China's territory and the Chinese troops stationed there, what does India want, a war with China or something else?