State Grid to intensify efforts for overseas expansion

State-owned State Grid Corp of China, the largest utility company in the world, is looking to make further inroads in global markets after its success with energy and transmission projects in Brazil, Australia and the Philippines, a top official said on Friday.

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Treaty pullouts sabotage pillars of global stability

Editor's note: The Donald Trump administration has vowed to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. Wang Chunyan, a researcher of South Asia studies with Sichuan University, comments in a column for Voice of China:

Academic wrongs must not be ignored

LIANG YING, a professor from the School of Social and Behavior Sciences, Nanjing University, is reported to have deleted 120 papers she wrote from online versions of academic journals. Thepaper.cn comments:

Clinging to outdated mindset will not guarantee security

The latest manufactured angst in the United States about the president's phone habits is yet another demonstration of the zero-sum Cold War mentality that still grips Washington.

Stock market volatility sign that Washington off course

US stocks closed sharply lower on Wednesday, with major indices posting slumps of at least 2 percent, triggering widespread sell-offs in other parts of the world.

Just an alarmist rumor to claim country on brink of financial crisis

WITH THE FAST RISE OF ITS LEVERAGE RATIO, some have expressed concern that China is on the verge of a debt or financial crisis. Economic Daily comments:

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China, EU can be closer cyber partners

Beijing hosted the fifth annual conference of the Taihu World Cultural Forum in Beijing last week, with its significance highlighted in a congratulatory letter sent by Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Washington's smears simply stain itself

Washington's recent accusation that China is interfering in the United States' internal affairs is an utter absurdity aimed at distracting public attention from its domestic troubles.

Reform and opening-up still the way forward

The international economic order and governance rules established after World War II have promoted the world's economic recovery and booming globalization. In particular, the information revolution and the global deployment of multinational companies since the 1980s have greatly catalyzed the growth of investment and trade worldwide.

Global call is for US to stop being a threat to peace

Back in November 2012, I condemned the documentary Death by China based on the book Death by China: Confronting the Dragon - A Global Call to Action by Peter Navarro, then a professor at University of California-Irvine and now director of the White House National Trade Council and an assistant to US President Donald Trump.