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.

We-media's pursuit of profits does not mean anything goes

Police announced on Saturday that a 21-year-old flight attendant who was killed on the evening of May 5 in Zhengzhou, Henan province, was murdered by the driver of the car she had hailed using the Didi Chuxing service and the man had killed himself by jumping into a nearby river.

Fake organic products a blight on market that must be rooted out

VOICE OF CHINA has reported some companies in Beijing label nonorganic vegetables as organic produce. Although the Beijing municipal government has taken immediate actions to investigate the case, it exposes institutional loopholes in the supervision of the organic agriculture industry. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

Stop fraudsters preying on superstition

SOME SELF-PROCLAIMED TAOIST PRIESTS sell various kinds of talismans on the internet claiming they can help buyers to realize their dreams, exorcise evil spirits or be lucky in love. Beijing News comments:

Owners ought to be deterred from abandoning dogs

ON MAY 7, a dog attacked eight persons one after another in Chaoyang district of Beijing. Some of the victims, such as a 5-year-old boy who suffered facial injuries, had quite bad wounds. Gmw.cn comments:

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New aircraft carrier a boon to navy

Editor's note: China's first domestically built aircraft carrier 001A started its maiden voyage on Sunday. Two experts share their views with China Daily's Zhang Zhouxiang on the aircraft carrier and the Chinese navy as a whole. Excerpts follow:

Nursing leave for only child a nationwide necessity

China's population has been rapidly aging, and the parents of the first generation "only child in the family" are getting old. But many an only child is finding it difficult to take care of their parents, especially those who migrate from villages to cities and towns in search of better livelihoods and higher studies.