Drone crash shows India still behaving recklessly

China's military voiced strong indignation on Thursday to the recent crash of an Indian unmanned aerial vehicle on the Chinese side of the border where there was a standoff between Chinese and Indian troops in the summer that lasted for more than two months. No further details have been given about the UAV or when it crashed, but as well as operating domestically developed drones, India agreed to buy state-of-the-art combat drones from Israel in the summer, having already deployed Israeli surveillance drones along the border.

Potential risks in financial system are being addressed

China's central bank expressed confidence in the stability of the country's financial system on Thursday after an assessment report by the International Monetary Fund highlighted potential risks.

Timetable for ban on 12 pesticides must be backed up by action plan

THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE announced on Monday that it has drawn up a timetable to ban use of 12 highly toxic pesticides within five years. Legal Daily commented on Thursday:

Training delivery riders can reduce accidents

THE MINISTRY OF PUBLIC SECURITY and the Ministry of Transport, together with five other ministries, have launched a national traffic safety activity that will last until the end of December. As part of this, they have asked fast food delivery companies to train their delivery riders. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

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.