Chen's visit to the US shows that the tail still wants to wag the dog

REPORTEDLY, Chen Ming-tong, head of Taiwan's "Mainland Affairs Council" visited Washington DC this month, where he plans to attend a seminar jointly held by the Heritage Foundation and the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, and meet officials of the US Department of Defense, State Department, National Security Council and the House of Representatives. Guancha.cn comments:

Trump promotes deal by accepting no quick fix

It may go down in history as an insolvable riddle whether or not Donald Trump was, as he later argued, tripped by a double negative when he exonerated Russia, which allegedly meddled in his country's 2016 general election that sent him to the White House, when he was expected to condemn it.

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Kindergartens should not be elementary schools

THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION recently issued a notice banning kindergartens from teaching primary school courses. China Youth Daily comments:

Has the meeting in Helsinki reset US-Russia relations?

It seems few share US President Donald Trump's optimism that his summit on Monday with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Helsinki helped dispel some of the tensions between the two countries.

Questions unsolved after company ordered to stop making rabies vaccine

IN A RECENT UNANNOUNCED INSPECTION, the State Drug Administration found that a pharmaceutical company based in Changchun, Northeast China's Jilin province, forged its production record for freeze-dried human rabies vaccines. Qianjiang Daily comments:

Washington stands to lose if it drags the tariff dispute for long

Responding to US Trade Representative statement on Section 301 action on July 10 that proposed imposing hefty tariffs on more Chinese imports, Beijing said the US had overestimated the size of its trade deficit and China is not responsible for it. Instead, the deficit is the result of the low savings rate in the United States, the US dollar serving as the international reserve currency, the two countries' differences over the international division of labor, and the US' restrictions on high-tech exports to China, the Ministry of Commerce said.

Kids need a pen so they do not get graphophobia

AT A RECENT calligraphy training program in Beijing, scholars and experts expressed their concerns about the declining calligraphy abilities of pupils. Eastday.com comments:

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Arrogance, bias of IP accusations

As an effort to demonize China and justify its ongoing trade spat with China, the White House issued a report on June 19, 2018, titled How China's Economic Aggression Threatens the Technologies and Intellectual Property of the United States and the World. Bloomberg described the report as the "latest salvo in the trade war between the world's two largest economies", but there is more to it than that: distortion of the truth and the facts and the contortion of them into threats not only to the US but also to the world.

Washington at odds with trends it cannot stop

The International Monetary Fund warned on Monday that US tariff actions could lead to escalating and sustained trade conflicts that would derail the global economic recovery and dampen medium-term growth prospects.

Strong growth defies doomsayers' expectations

Despite a slight slowdown in the second quarter, China's growth has remained on track in the first half of this year, reaching an expectation-beating 6.8 percent year-on-year.