Efforts to help poor should be better evaluated

ACCORDING TO REPORTS, many officials of a city in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region were mobilized to welcome colleagues from neighboring cities that were visiting to evaluate their poverty alleviation work. Beijing News comments:

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Trump's Jerusalem move perilous

Editor's note: US President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel on Wednesday, sparking a debate on what the United States will gain from a decision that leaders of many countries, including Washington's allies in the West and the Middle East, have warned against and could lead to protests and violence. Three experts share their views on the issue with China Daily's Zhang Zhouxiang and Cui Shoufeng. Excerpts follow:

Tycoons should be wary of sensitive comments

"It is painful to earn (only) 2 billion yuan ($302 million) a month," sighed Jack Ma, president of Alibaba, China's e-commerce giant, at a gathering of entrepreneurs in Hangzhou, his hometown in Zhejiang province, last week.

A new channel for mutual understanding

Thanks to President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, the CPC has placed emphasis not just on government-to-government contacts but also interactions between the CPC and the political parties of other countries.

Decision makes Middle East peace a more remote prospect

By recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel on Wednesday and ordering preparations for moving the US embassy there, US President Donald Trump defied the will of the majority of countries, and not for the first time.

Trump reckless to play with a match on a powder keg

If United States President Donald Trump's previous foreign policy moves have by and large been driven by putting "America first", formally recognizing Jerusalem as the Israeli capital and planning to move the US embassy there would be best described as ill-advised, more accurately dangerously foolhardy.

Spiraling tensions highlight urgency of peaceful solution

Less than a week after Pyongyang test-fired a new ballistic missile presumed capable of reaching the United States, and two days after the US and the Republic of Korea launched their biggest-ever joint air exercise, the fact that a senior United Nations official was in Pyongyang for discussions with a leading official of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea raises hopes that diplomacy can still defuse the Korean Peninsula nuclear crisis.

Call for deeper cooperation to build cyber community with a shared future

THE FOURTH WORLD INTERNET CONFERENCE concluded on Tuesday in Wuzhen, East China's Zhejiang province. President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the conference, in which he urged the international community to make concerted efforts to enhance cyberspace governance, showing the great significance China attaches to the issue. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Wednesday:

Attempts to exploit patriotism fall flat

KOJI YANO, a 47-year-old Japanese actor who has made a career in China, has been the subject of discussion on social media since the remarks he made on a Japanese television show years ago, criticizing Chinese dog owners for their impolite behavior, were put in the spotlight. China Youth Daily commented on Wednesday:

Probe into pharma company's eyedrop claims long overdue

DXY.COM, a popular medical advice website, recently released an article via its official micro blog saying Zhejiang Shapuaisi Pharmaceutical delayed many users' seeking proper treatment with its adverts claiming its eyedrops could prevent and cure cataracts. Southern Metropolis Daily comments:

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