It has become the norm each year during the two sessions of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the country's top advisory body, for some Western media outlets to scrutinize China's proposed military spending and claim it poses a threat to China's neighbors and beyond. This is both confounding and malignant. For if they discarded their "China threat" mentality and looked upon China's defense spending growth with objectivity, they would quickly arrive at the conclusion that China's expenditure increase is reasonable given its need to modernize its military to meet the changing circumstances.
Since US President Donald Trump took office in January 2017, his administration has aggressively followed the "America First" policy. The US has withdrawn from several multilateral mechanisms and is making greater efforts to promote bilateral trade - as opposed to multilateral trade - as it involves less responsibility and higher profits. With such benefits in mind, Trump pulled out from the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement in which the US accounted for about 60 percent of the combined GDP of the 12 members.
Chinese scientists are designing key parts to be used in the nation's most powerful carrier rocket, which is expected to make its first flight around 2030, a senior researcher said.
Chinese prosecutors are playing an increasingly active role in urging poorly performing government departments and agencies to implement laws by filing lawsuits against them, according to the country's top procuratorate.
SHENYANG - Families across China prepared glutinous rice balls to celebrate Lantern Festival, known as Yuanxiao in Chinese, the last day of the two-week Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations.
Beijing has experienced virtually no precipitation for more than 130 days, and the situation is expected to continue until at least March 16, according to the China Meteorological Administration.
Chris Whittle, a 70-year-old veteran education entrepreneur, has not spent his life resting on his laurels, but instead has built a career based on passion and vitality, which has culminated in the establishment of the world's first "global school".
The man chosen to design the Whittle School & Studios campuses - renowned Italian architect Renzo Piano, whose works include The Shard in London and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris - has a special vision for the new schools.
When Peter Lam arrived home one morning in October after a brief breakfast outing, he realized something was wrong. He knocked on the door of his mother's room, but there was no response. He knocked again, but she still didn't answer.
Yu Shiyao's charitable aspirations have been fulfilled years ahead of schedule because of a chance sighting on social media.
February nights on the prairie in Angsu village are piercingly cold, but herder Bixirlt does not mind. Rather than getting up several times to check on his sheep, he just turns over in bed and uses his smartphone to check.
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