BRI's image being tarred by false claims

The huge production capacity formed in China during its rapid economic development over the past decades has been closely watched since the 2008 global financial crisis, and especially since China launched the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, with some Western media and scholars trying to establish a connection between them.

Poison pill terms will kill fair trade

In order to win in its trade competition with China, the Trump administration is preparing to establish international trade and investment rules that favor the United States by building discriminatory trade blocs with its allies.

Campus misconduct coverups compound offense

More often than not schools tend to deny or downplay sexual misconduct cases on campus, especially when teaching staff are involved. Yet handling such cases seriously and decisively would not tarnish a schools' reputation, instead it would enhance it, as proven by the praise Jilin Agricultural Science and Technology University has received recently.

China can help PNG defend its ecological redline

This summer, my country, Papua New Guinea (PNG), became the newest member of China's Belt and Road Initiative. This global program already spans dozens of countries and represents over a trillion dollars of planned investments in infrastructure development. Meanwhile, China's aid to PNG is surging: only recently, it committed over AU$4 billion ($2.82 billion) to develop PNG's national road network. These initiatives mean that bilateral trade is set to increase.

Private education can build on strong foundations

ON SUNDAY, Westlake University, China's first private university aimed at cultivating high-level talent in advanced technology, was founded in Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang province. Beijing News comments:

Claims vaping is alternative to smoking pernicious health risk

THE HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION has banned the smoking of electronic cigarettes in public areas. Guangming Daily comments:

Bridge gets bay's greater integration underway

After 14 years of planning and construction and weathering the destructive force of a super typhoon, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge was declared open by President Xi Jinping at a ceremony on Tuesday.

Tsai on a blind Hummer ride into the night

Editor's note: The United States has led the Taiwan administration of Tsai Ing-wen off the right track in handling the island's ties with the Chinese mainland, Liu Kuangyu, a researcher of Taiwan studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, commented in his column for the Voice of China on Tuesday. Excerpts:

US playing high stakes game backing Taipei

Since it was, in United States Pacific Fleet spokesman Commander Nate Christensen's word, "in accordance with international law",

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China's focus on peace, co-operation

A quote attributed to Mark Twain goes like this: A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. This time round, a US politician bragged about his country "rebuilding China" in front of the whole world contrary to the facts. The international community should be reminded of the truth.

US' move hangs a sword over Russia

Editor's note: On Saturday, facing a group of Republican Party supporters, US President Donald Trump said he would withdraw the United States from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia. The latter responded on Sunday that it will take a series of countermeasures if the US does pull out. Two experts shared their views with China Daily's Zhang Zhouxiang: