A friendship that transcends time and borders

Few relationships in the history of international relations have endured so long as that between Pakistan and China and even fewer have been described as "higher than the mountains, deeper than the oceans". This description of the all-weather friendship is not just rhetoric; it is based on shared principles and interests, and forms the foundation of cooperation in diverse fields.

Not the right time for EU to fall for US trade sop

The surprising announcement of US President Donald Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in July that they intend to establish a zero-tariff trade regime has left many in China worried that the new trade partnership developing across the Atlantic could end up targeting China.

US is making trouble with its unilateralist approach

It is no joke to call the US the United States of Sanctions, as wielding an economic cudgel seems to be Washington's preferred means of persuasion or punishment.

Proposed US space force will open Pandora's box

Exactly as he anticipated, the United States commander-in-chief made a "big, breaking story" last Monday as he ordered the Pentagon to establish a "space force" as the sixth branch of his country's military. About which he had previously been "not really serious".

Probing students' claims does credit to college entrance examination

ON SATURDAY NIGHT, the provincial discipline inspection commission and supervisory commission of Central China's Henan province released the results of their investigation into claims by four students that their answer sheets in the national college entrance exam (gaokao) might have been exchanged with those for lower points. Beijing News comments:

E-cigarettes included in tobacco control

A RECENT INCIDENT inside a subway car in Beijing, in which a passenger smoked an electronic cigarette and quarreled with other passengers who complained, has aroused wide public discussions. Legal Daily comments:

Children are not private property of their parents

ON AUG 8, the local police in Jinan city, capital of East China's Shandong province, issued a press release about a man beating his 15-year-old son to death. Beijing News comments:

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Putting system reform to stress test

Historian Wang Gungwu recently observed that, whereas the West thinks in terms of ideologies, China has long thought in terms of systems. In today's age of rapid and profound change - characterized, in particular, by a fundamental shift in the United States' attitude toward the rest of the world - China's system reform approach is being put to the test.

US fallacy of pitting Russia against China

Ever since the end of the Cold War, the pundits and policymakers in Washington have suffered from raging attention deficit disorder. New fads and fantasies have succeeded each other in dizzying and disorienting succession. We have lived through the "eternal triumph of democracy and the completion of the Hegelian engine to generate world ideas" (Francis Fukuyama), the "unipolar moment" (Charles Krauthammer), the "flat world" (Thomas Friedman), and "nation-building in Iraq and Afghanistan" (George W. Bush and company).

Japan's new defense plan headed in the wrong direction

Japan's defense ministry held a ceremony in Yokohama on July 30 for naming of the country's seventh Aegis escort warship; it has been named Maya and is likely to be commissioned around March 2020.

Shipbuilder reaps B&R rewards

Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding Ltd, the largest ship maker in Fujian province, has seen a remarkable growth in orders from overseas clients since China announced its Belt and Road Initiative, a top official said.