US should see the huge potential ahead instead of condemning China

In November, the United States administration refused to recognize China's market economy status, going back on the promise it had made when China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. And last week's US statement suggested it regrets supporting China's entry into the WTO.

US shows it's hell-bent on having its own way

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' weeklong trip to Asia has caught global attention as it comes just two days after the Pentagon revealed its national defense strategy on Friday. Not surprisingly, it has been anticipated that his visits to Vietnam and Indonesia will set out new markers for US strategy in the Asia-Pacific.

Abe must now follow up on his words of friendship

In his policy address on the opening of a new session of parliament on Monday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe once again focused on his idée fixe when he spoke of changing the Constitution so as to shape the future of the country.

Ice house reveals lengths to which govts will go to sweeten environmental data

PHOTOS WERE recently posted online showing the office building of the environmental protection bureau of Shizuishan, Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, covered in icicles and frost because a water canon truck belonging to the local sanitation station had sprayed too much water over the building in an attempt to manipulate the air quality monitoring data. Southern Metropolis Daily commented on Monday:

Cartoon fuss highlights lack of rating system

A MICKEY MOUSE look-alike is hit by a car when crossing the road and lies in a pool of blood. A character that looks like Princess Elsa, a figure in the animated movie Frozen, is given a throat operation that involves bloody scenes. Recently, some companies have been producing such bloody scenes based on familiar characters and spreading them among children. Southern Metropolis Daily comments:

Smartphone users on planes should consider others

ONE AFTER ANOTHER, domestic airlines have lifted the ban on using cellphones on flights. However, there have already been complaints about the noise nuisance as people are using their smartphones without using earphones. Beijing News comments:

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Rebalancing geopolitics, geoeconomics

In the discussion on global disorder and the fate of the West, many political and economic experts and pundits are focusing on how to rebalance geopolitics and geoeconomics in 2018. Why is that?

How UK could change its mind about Brexit

Will 2018 be the year when the United Kingdom changes its mind about leaving the European Union? Conventional wisdom says that stopping Brexit is impossible. But what did conventional wisdom say about Donald Trump, that he will win the US presidential election? Or that Emmanuel Macron would become the French president? Or, did it predict the original Brexit referendum? In revolutionary times, events can go from impossible to inevitable without ever passing through improbable. Brexit was such an event, and its reversal could be another.

Global solution providers like China need to be supported

One year ago, when Donald Trump was sworn in as US president, his European Union counterparts still believed he would take the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership forward. But with Trump sticking to his "America First" isolationist policy, which he espoused during his presidential campaign, the EU decided to pursue globalization and deeper international engagement.

US erring in trying to circumvent trade norms

It will have come as no surprise to those keeping a watchful eye on the dynamics in the relations between the world's two largest economies that the current administration is claiming the United States made a mistake when it backed China's membership of the World Trade Organization.

Pentagon's strategy is not a good fit for the times

A US guided missile destroyer sailed within 12 nautical miles of China's Huangyan Island on Wednesday evening without Beijing's permission.