In US, national and personal progress are different things

To most Chinese, Barshefsky is not a name easy to pronounce. But a woman by that name and her flowing silk scarves are well known in China. I have met Charlene Barshefsky, former US chief trade negotiator, several times in Washington, and each time I saw her wearing one of her trademark scarves, which earlier reports said often "brightened up" the sometimes dull conference rooms during the talks leading up to China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001.

US cannot shrug off its role in Palestinian deaths

The plight of Palestinians once again attracted the world's attention on Monday, but at a cost.

Foreign firms held to account

As an increasing number of foreign enterprises are operating in China, there has been growing public scrutiny on those that fail to respect the country's territorial integrity.

Beijing responsible for most of its air pollution, and thus for curbing it

BEIJING SAID ON MONDAY that about two-thirds of the airborne particles smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter that can penetrate people's lungs and harm their health were produced by the city itself last year, among which vehicles and the dust from construction sites and roads were the main contributors. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

School registration paternity tests go too far

HUMEN TOWN in South China's Guangdong province has started registration work for the pupils who will enter schools in September. However, some parents said they are required to provide paternity test results when applying for middle school for their children. Gmw.cn comments:

Investigation should look for solutions

A SICHUAN AIRLINES pilot safely landed an Airbus A319 carrying 119 passengers, after a cockpit window blew out while the plane was cruising at an altitude of 32,000 feet on Monday. Beijing News comments:

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Initiative a project for all stakeholders

Since its launch in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative has been subjected to two divergent discourses on its characteristics and aims. The discourse emanating from China - the internal discourse - presents the Belt and Road Initiative, at its most modest. It presents it as a trans-national infrastructure project to build interconnectivity (greater trade, infrastructure and people-to-people links) among Eurasian countries and promote the economic development and prosperity of Asian, African and European economies along the Belt and Road.

Playing Taiwan card will sour Sino-US ties

Editor's note: A "US-Taiwan defense sector forum" was held in Kaohsiung on Thursday amid the US Congress' review of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act which aims to "strengthen US-Taiwan military exchanges". Three experts share their views with China Daily's Yao Yuxin on how such "exchanges" undermine the Three Joint Communiqués and will sour Sino-US ties. Excerpts follow:

Committed to deeper reform, opening-up

To mark the 40th anniversary of reform and opening-up this year, China has decided to further ease its economic policies, and implement a sweeping reform program for Party and government institutions.

Trade talks can help China, US balance ties

Veteran traditional Chinese medicine practitioners know that it often takes long-term treatment to cure the patients of an epidemic disease, because the disease might have developed over a long period of time without being noticed.

'America first' hobbles global leadership of US

Since Donald Trump took office in January, 2017, there has been much speculation about the direction of US policy in the Middle East. Now it has begun to take shape and it spells ill for the region.