Exaggeration to say smartphone use is dependency

PEOPLE'S SMARTPHONE dependency should not be exaggerated, but people should be aware of the negative influences of using their devices too much. China Youth Daily comments:

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US using trade to check China's rise

China introduced the Made in China 2025 plan on May 19, 2015, to keep pace with the new industrial revolution, and for upgrading and transforming its manufacturing industry.

Nation's image reflects its growing power

A Gallup World Affairs survey shows US citizens' positive feeling toward China has been consistently rising in recent years. According to Gallup's latest poll, 53 percent of the American respondents have a favorable view of China - the first time in three decades that more than 50 percent Americans have expressed such a view. Surveys conducted by other international organizations, think tanks and media outlets also show an increasing number of foreigners hold a favorable view of China.

Have US and Russia entered a new arms race?

The Donald Trump administration's first Nuclear Posture Review, presented in February, has abandoned former president Barack Obama's nuclear disarmament "promise" and, instead, vowed to enhance the role of nuclear power in the US' security strategy including developing sea-launched nuclear missiles, which in a way lowers the threshold for using nuclear weapons.

Syrians continue to suffer as major world powers bicker

Syria and its people continue to suffer as the West continues to play its power game with Russia. The US, British and French air strikes on three Syrian sites on April 14, claiming they are associated with the Syrian government forces' alleged chemical attack in Douma in eastern Ghouta, was without any justification of international law or authorization of the UN Security Council. The West has done it before, in Iraq and Libya for instance, and may do it again.

US should not politicize economic competition

The denial order the United States Commerce Department activated against ZTE on Monday may prove fatal to the Chinese telecommunications company. But the impact of the decision may go beyond the fate of an individual company in the context of the ongoing trade spat and economic competition between the US and China.

Questions to be answered in Hongmao liquor case

It is obviously not sensible for a medical professional to give a sensational title to an otherwise academic article he posted online. Especially when his article accuses the liquor of being toxic rather than having medicinal benefits as its manufacturer claims.

Expanding space for service sector will sustain economic growth

THE ADDED VALUE of the service sector in China reached 42.7 trillion yuan ($6.8 trillion) last year, accounting for 51.6 percent of the country's gross domestic product, 11.1 percentage points higher than the secondary industry. The service industry contributed 58.8 percent of the country's economic growth in 2106, 1.3 percentage points higher than 2016, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

Gambling in Hainan not zero-sum game

IN A DOCUMENT on expanding Hainan's opening-up issued by the central authorities on Saturday, the largest special economic zone and the to-be largest pilot free trade zone is encouraged to develop horse racing and lottery industries, particularly the in-play competitive sports lotteries. Beijing News comments:

Oversight must be beefed up to curb spam SMS

MANY SMARTPHONE USERS complain about receiving unwanted messages and that even after they send orders back to block such junk messages as instructed, the junk messages continue. Legal Daily comments: