Insights into Xi's thoughts on governance for the new era

I am very pleased to come to London to host together with all of you the launch ceremony for the multilingual versions of the second volume of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, during the London Books Fair, the most important spring pageant of the global publication industry.

US should not force China to shut door to it

In an opinion piece for the Financial Times this week, US President Donald Trump's top trade adviser Peter Navarro accused Beijing of building "a Great Wall of denial" about what he alleged was its "illicit and protectionist" behavior.

Looted cultural heritage ought to be restituted

Canterbury Auction Galleries in the United Kingdom has turned a deaf ear to the State Administration of Cultural Heritage's urging that it cancel the auction of a rare Chinese bronze water vessel looted by a British soldier from Beijing's Old Summer Palace in 1860.

Xi clears doubts over further reform

Editor's note: In his keynote speech at the Boao Forum for Asia on Tuesday, President Xi Jinping vowed to safeguard economic globalization and deepen reform and opening-up. Four experts share their views with China Daily on the possible impact of the speech. Excerpts follow:

Trump will realize folly after tasting bitter fruit of the seed he has sown

In recent years, some observers have been hyping up the possibility of a head-on confrontation between China and the United States. With the shadow of a trade war growing darker and the tensions between the two countries in the South China Sea escalating, these observers believe their prediction is about to come true.

Reform, opening-up not for expediency

To those who doubt the country's commitment to economic openness, President Xi Jinping gave his personal assurance that rather than close its doors to the rest of the world, China will open them further, in his Tuesday speech at the Boao Forum for Asia.

US' sub tech sale increases tensions across the Straits

Separatists in Taiwan are being naive or self-deceiving if they consider the US State Department's approval of a marketing license to sell military submarine technology to the island to be good news.

Writer's trademark victory, a step forward for copyright protection

LAST WEEK, Zheng Yuanjie, a fairytale writer, succeeded in persuading the Trademark Review Committee of the State Administration for Market Regulation to annul the trademark of Pipilu, a leading character in one of Zheng's works, which had been registered by a Western food restaurant in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan province, 14 years ago. Yanzhao Metropolis Daily comments:

Drone deliveries must ensure safety

SF EXPRESS is reportedly the fist domestic company to obtain permission to use drones to make deliveries. Legal Daily comments:

Poetry need not be consigned to book graveyard

LEI HAIWEI, a migrant worker, who works as a courier in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, won the Chinese Poetry Competition, a TV show on the Voice of China, last week, after defeating a postgraduate majoring in the Chinese literature studies from Peking University in the final. Beijing News comments:

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Time to safeguard global free trade

If President Xi Jinping's speech was highly anticipated by those attending the Boao Forum for Asia, it was just as eagerly waited in Washington and Wall Street, as trade tensions have begun to penalize US markets.