Fears killer bots on the way that may wipe us out

ON WEDNESDAY, over 50 artificial intelligence researchers reportedly co-signed a letter announcing that they will be boycotting a university in the Republic of Korea until it pledges to refrain from developing AI weapons without "meaningful human control". Beijing News commented on Monday:

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China should call Trump's trade bluff

US President Donald Trump added a new twist to the trade dispute on Sunday by seemingly softening his stance and tweeting: "President Xi and I will always be friends, no matter what happens with our dispute on trade. China will take down its trade barriers because it is the right thing to do..."

US misreading Made in China 2025 by design

As a drafter of the Made in China 2025 plan, I feel the US report on the investigation under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 is biased. For instance, the report says the Chinese government provides funds for enterprises to invest in and purchase US companies in a bid to acquire core technologies, when the fact is that Chinese enterprises have decided on their own to expand globally because of the rapid increase in their competitiveness and power.

A true community of equality and prosperity

The changing pattern of global economic development has given rise to new proposals of international relations and cooperation. From Davos to Boao, a community with a shared future for humankind is China's proposal as it develops into an influential global power amid historic changes. China's proposal has the potential to promote global development in a more equitable and fair manner.

International community must prevent a trade war

The world will pay special attention to President Xi Jinping when he addresses his speech to almost 2,000 politicians, and business, media leaders and scholars from across the world at the annual Boao Forum for Asia in South China's Hainan province on Tuesday amid the escalating Beijing-Washington trade dispute.

China acting in defense of international trade

It goes against the grain to repeat something already told more than once, especially when it has been told so clearly by so many. But it seems that needs must, for the United States continues to turn a deaf ear to warnings that its unilateral actions risk damaging global trade and undermining the global trade system.

Still striding forward on the path of reform

Four decades into China's earthshaking reform and opening-up, some outsiders wonder whether that 40-year-old commitment will persist.

Don't exaggerate second-tier cities' capabilities to attract graduates

ABOUT 8.2 MILLION COLLEGE STUDENTS will graduate in China this year, a record high. A survey of graduating students found that 60 percent want to work in second-tier cities, while 30 percent are hoping to work in first-tier cities, with the remaining 10 percent planning to work in third-and fourth-tier cities. Guangming Daily comments:

Beijing sets good ecological burial example

ECOLOGICAL BURIALS, which refer to sea burials, tree burials or other burials that do not occupy a special plot of land, accounted for 44 percent of the total burials in Beijing last year. Beijing News commented on Sunday:

News aggregators must put content 'firewalls' in place

ON THURSDAY, the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television said via its official WeChat account that it had talked with the heads of the Beijing-based Toutiao and Kuaishou because the two news apps had published content contrary to social morality. Beijing News comments:

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