Why is Trump always critical of Germany?

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump claimed Germany is a captive to Russian gas supplies during the summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels last week. Beijing News commented on Monday:

4-day workweek proposal reveals job fears of many

IN A RECENTLY released green paper, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences proposed revising the national work schedule in 2030 to nine hours a day and four days a week. Beijing News reports:

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US tech claims biased and baseless

After the White House website published a report on June 19, accusing China of resorting to "economic aggression", "economic coercion" and "technology theft", the United States has used the ever-intensifying trade conflict to launch a "targeted attack" against China.

Belt and Road will help shape healthier world

As I travel this week to meet China's State leaders in Beijing, I'll fly over a number of countries where China is dramatically changing economic landscapes. With its Belt and Road Initiative, China is promoting global economic integration by building infrastructure and broadening trade with countries such as Kazakhstan, Russia and about five dozen other countries on multiple continents.

Spark the G20 spirit to stop US destroying WTO

With the global economy being dangerously-threatened and even damaged by unilateralism and trade bullying, the Monday meeting between China and European Union leaders went beyond the bilateral sphere and injected timely impetus into China-EU ties to save the global multilateral trading system from being destroyed by the unilateralism of the United States.

China, EU must work together for free trade

Contrary to US ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison's claim prior to the meeting that "the overall theme" of the transatlantic organization's latest summit in Brussels would be its "strength and unity," it was the opposite that was on display; it ended up showcasing discord.

Long-arm trade coercion

The United States seems intent on initiating long-term trade wars with almost all other countries and wantonly shaking the global stock markets and industrial value chains.

Smoking ban on planes must also be applied to flight crew

A COPILOT vaping on an Air China flight from Hong Kong to Dalian caused the plane to start a rapid emergency descent, because in trying to hide the fact that he was smoking by turning off a fan, he turned off the air-conditioning unit instead. His "foolish" error caused an oxygen shortage in the passenger cabin, triggering the height warning device and an emergency descent of the plane from an altitude of 11,000 meters to 4,000 meters. People's Daily comments:

Innovation new driver of development

TESLA SAID ON THURSDAY that it will establish a research and development center in Beijing, the first one outside of the United States. The electric carmaker also announced earlier that it will establish a factory in Shanghai. Beijing News comments:

Healthcare reforms fundamental to end attacks on doctors

A 47-YEAR-OLD DOCTOR working for an armed police hospital in Tianjin was stabbed to death by three people on her way to visit a patient on Thursday morning. ThePaper.cn comments:

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