US pulling a fast one with its waste claims

Does China have an obligation to import and treat the solid waste of other countries?

Smartening up China's image

The Palace Museum announced on Friday that it will stop selling its popular "Gege" dolls, based on a Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) princess, after they were said to be too similar to a product made by a foreign manufacturer, especially in terms of their head-body proportion and joints, which led to allegations they were the products of intellectual property rights theft.

Online trade of users' privacy for convenience too one-sided

AT THE CHINA DEVELOPMENT FORUM on Monday, Li Yanhong, CEO of domestic internet services giant Baidu Inc, said that many Chinese users are willing to trade privacy for convenience. Beijing News comments:

Where are all our pediatricians?

DATA SHOW that there are more than 200 million children under the age of 14 in China, yet there are less than 100,000 pediatricians nationwide. At least 200,000 more are needed to meet the demand. China Youth Daily comments:

Good call to give phone booths new lease on life

SIX PUBLIC PHONE booths in the Xuhui district of Shanghai have been transformed into reading booths, which is a good exploration of urban modernization. The Paper.cn comments:

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Innovation path to great high-tech power

The White House has fired the first shot in what could lead to a trade war. Given that China-US trade hit $580 billion last year, it is not surprising that Washington has raised a dispute over "fairness" in bilateral trade. US President Donald Trump believes China is "taking away American jobs" and "dumping goods" on the United States.

Australia needs to better understand China

With the promotion of highly complementary structures in trade, relations between China and Australia made great progress in the 21st century, and until last year, China had been Australia's largest trade partner for eight straight years.

VOC should be more than just Voice of China

The institutional reform plan for the Party and State institutions, released at the end of the annual sessions of China's top legislature and top political advisory body on March 20, mentions the creation of a new media brand, Zhongguo Zhisheng, meaning the "Voice of China".

US politicians must realize institutes aren't political tools

There seem be two types of Confucius Institutes in the United States: those that are hailed on more than 100 campuses as a bridge to learning the Chinese language and culture, and those that are labeled by some newspapers and websites as a "political tool" of China.

Talks better option than 'economic intimidation'

Even after Vice-Premier Liu He spoke by phone with the US treasury secretary on Saturday calling for concerted efforts to maintain the stability of trade ties between their respective countries, the Trump administration has made it clear that it intends to squeeze as much as it can from China.

Good, bad and ugly of big data

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg took out full-page ads in British and American newspapers on Sunday to apologize for a "breach of trust" in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, admitting the quiz app built by a university researcher that leaked Facebook data of millions of people in 2014 was a "breach of trust".