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.

Tsai has no reason to politicize extra flights for Spring Festival travel rush

CHINESE MAINLAND AIRLINES planned an additional 509 flights from mainland cities to Taiwan to facilitate the annual rush to and from the island during this year's Spring Festival holiday. Yet the island's "civil aeronautics administration" did not approve the applications of 176 flights to be operated by China Eastern Airlines and Xiamen Air, on the grounds of "potential flight safety concerns" for those airlines flying the M503 flight course. Li Yang of China Daily comments:

Govt shutdown exposes system flaws

EXCEPT FOR essential agency operations, the US federal government shut down at midnight on Friday because the White House and Congress could not reach a deal on a government spending bill. Xinhua News Agency comments:

Policy support required to help boost birth rate

THE NATIONAL Bureau of Statistics disclosed on Thursday that the newly-born population in China last year was 17.23 million, which means the national fertility rate was 1.24 percent, which is even lower than Japan's 1.46 percent. Southern Metropolitan Daily comments:

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Trump needs cooperation for success

Editor's Note: US President Donald Trump's China policy has been inconsistent and unstable. So how do we evaluate Sino-US ties, especially after the US National Security Strategy report called China a "strategic competitor", instead of a competitor and partner, in December? Two experts share their views on the issue with China Daily's Pan Yixuan. Excerpts follow:

Property curbs working to potential

Lanzhou, capital of Northwest China's Gansu province, has reportedly eased the property tightening policy in some of its districts despite local authorities' denial previously, raising public concerns that such measures could be eased nationwide.

US economic show marred by zero-sum thinking

The brightest point for US President Donald Trump in his first year in office is definitely the economy - the lowest jobless rate this century, a relatively healthy GDP growth, and the robust securities and financial sectors thanks partly to deregulation and other economic incentives, have injected vitality into the US market. But the economic performance has failed to fully stabilize US society, as was expected.

Is Japan out to renege on its no-nuclear weapon policy?

Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, was denied a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during her recent visit to Japan. Visiting Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Fihn urged Japan, the only country to have suffered nuclear attacks, to play a leading role in the campaign aimed at abolishing nuclear weapons.

Huawei bets on technology to bolster revenue growth

Company to face tough times amid telecom sector slowdown in 2018