BRICS building strong bridges with Africa

The 10th BRICS summit in Johannesburg from Wednesday to Friday is the second one to be hosted by South Africa, which has since earned it the epithet of a "BRICS gateway" to fast-transforming African nations. The theme of this year, "BRICS in Africa: Collaboration for Inclusive Growth and Shared Prosperity in the Fourth Industrial Revolution", is also a step forward from that of the 5th BRICS summit in Cape Town in 2013, "BRICS and Africa: Partnership for Integration and Industrialization".

US Congress is wrong to question Huawei's academic partnerships

Recently my company Huawei was strongly criticized by several members of the US Congress. They asked the US secretary of education to investigate whether our cooperation with US universities on basic scientific research might threaten US national security. I believe this criticism displays an ignorance of how contemporary science and innovation work and I recently described it as "ill-informed" in a media interview.

Xi's visit to Africa will lift relations to higher level

President Xi Jinping hailed the great dynamism of Africa when he arrived in Senegal on Saturday, the first stop on a four-country trip to Africa, that also takes him to Rwanda, South Africa and Mauritius.

Transparency can help ease panic over vaccine scandal

The State Drug Administration's statement on July 15 that Changchun Changsheng Bio-tech Company had fabricated the production records for its human rabies vaccine caused millions of people to panic as vaccines may be a matter of life and death.

It is not easy for US to mend its ways but it must give up unilateralism

THE UNITED STATES is reportedly hinting to the EU that it wants a free trade deal, possibly as a move to get more leverage in its trade frictions with China. However, this will not be easy as what the US administration has done has sowed the seeds of mistrust between both sides. Xin Zhiming comments:

Student union's bureaucratic style is a joke

A RECENT ANNOUNCEMENT by the Sun Yat-sen University of its Students' Union "cadres" aroused criticism nationwide because of its overly bureaucratic style. Ccdi.gov.cn comments:

Calligraphy needs no sensationalizing to make it appealing

SOME SELF-PROCLAIMED calligraphers seek to profit from performances in which they sensationalize their art, but instead of being welcomed by people, their "ugly calligraphy" pieces only make people tired and disgusted. People.com.cn comments:

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Reform focus on property rights, market

Three decades ago we advanced on two main courses of economic reform including enterprise reform, ownership reform, price reform, and the reform of the economic operating system. Since then the two main courses of reform have not only deepened but also yielded remarkable results.

US trade move bound to hit global growth

After threatening to ignite a trade war against China for months, the Donald Trump administration imposed additional tariffs on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods on July 6. To protect its core national interests, China was forced to take retaliatory action on the same day and levy tariffs on US imports based on the "equal scale and strength" principle.

China firm on closing tech gap with the world

Considering innovation as the primary driving force of development, the central leadership has been taking effective measures to bridge China's gap in technological progress with international advanced levels, especially in key and core technologies.

Japan-EU deal shows US is not becoming great, but vulnerable

Before sitting down with the United States for trade talks later this month, Japan is holding some good cards.