Will Trump extort a price from NATO?

US President Donald Trump warned other NATO leaders the United States would alter the military deployment in European countries if they didn't increase their defense budgets, raising worries that the NATO summit in Brussels on Wednesday and Thursday could end like the G7 summit in Canada last month - in disorder.

Combined defense against Trump's trade attack needed

Premier Li Keqiang's three-day visit to Germany, which started on Sunday, comes against the backdrop of rising protectionism and unilateralism, as US President Donald Trump's go-it-alone policies have put the rule-based global trade system at risk.

Weapon of the law effective in battle against pollution

That the country's top legislature convened a special meeting on Monday and Tuesday to discuss a report on the results of its inspections to determine how effectively the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law is being implemented, and a draft decision on further ways to strengthen protection of the environment in accordance with the law, speaks volumes about the importance the country's top authorities attach to the issue.

Reform of domestic stock market will adhere to established plan, direction

CHINA SECURITIES REGULATORY COMMISSION said on Sunday that it plans to allow foreigners to open accounts in China's A-share market. Economic Daily comments:

Tragedy shows weak risk awareness

THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND TOURISM has instructed all online travel platforms, tourism enterprises, and travel agencies to carry out emergency investigations to check the safety of all the services or activities they offer tourists. Beijing News comments:

Being enslaved by electronic devices is ruining kids' eyesight

THE LATEST DATA show that 58.6 percent of all primary and secondary school pupils in Beijing have poor eyesight and have to wear glasses. Gmw.cn comments:

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Trade war will harm all global players

Since the beginning of this year, trade frictions between China and the United States have significantly escalated. And with additional US tariffs on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods taking effect on Friday, the US has now launched a full-blown trade war against China.

Robust economy resilient to trade attacks

The United States pulled the trigger on 25 percent tariff on $34 billion worth of Chinese imports on Friday, launching a full-scale trade war. And given the ominous signs visible on the global trade firmament, China would do well to prepare to deal with possibly the largest and dirtiest trade war in history.

A social credit system the need of the hour

The "social credit system" exemplifies China's top-level design approach, which is coordinated by the Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reforms. The State Council, China's Cabinet, has issued the "Planning Outline for the Construction of a Social Credit System (2014-20)", which says the social credit system will focus on four areas: honesty in government affairs, commercial integrity, societal integrity and judicial credibility.

It's time the EU realized US' anti-free trade characteristics

European Council President Donald Tusk's weekly agenda shows he will discuss only routine affairs with US President Donald Trump at the NATO summit in Brussels on Wednesday and Thursday. And there are no signs yet to suggest the European Union and the Trump administration will hold their first summit in the near future.

Further opening up remains the way forward for China

With the United States having already activated 25 percent tariffs on some $34 billion worth of Chinese imports, the Washington-initiated trade dispute with China has escalated and could worsen.