India, Pakistan know controlling conflict in their best interests

ON FEB 14, 44 paramilitary officers were killed in a suicide attack in Pulwama in India-administered Kashmir. As it has after previous attacks, India accused Pakistan of having a "direct hand" behind the scenes and it launched airstrikes targeting what it said was a large training camp of the Jaish-e-Mohammad group, which claimed responsibility for the attack. Xiakedao, a WeChat account of People's Daily, comments:

Overemphasizing differences hurts progress of Sino-US ties

It is absolutely true that how the trade talks between China and the United States fare will have a bearing on not just both countries but also the entire world. Which is why, as Zhang Yesui, spokesman for the second session of the 13th National People's Congress, told a news conference on Monday, the "substantive progress" the two countries have made in their trade talks has been well received all around the world.

Space should be a realm of collaborative endeavor

China may still have a long way to go before it has the space capabilities depicted in the sci-fi blockbuster The Wandering Earth. Yet it has undoubtedly made remarkable progress over the past decades.

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Worries over defense budget unwarranted

Editor's Note: China's defense budget growth has always been an easy target of some Western media outlets. Why does China need to steadily increase its defense budget? And why there is no need for the world to be worried about it? Two experts share their views on this issue with China Daily's Liu Jianna. Excerpts follow:

Unified leadership can better fight corruption

The reform of the national supervisory system, a major step toward promoting institutional restructuring that will have far-reaching social and political implications, is China's important top-level design for a new national supervisory system and important move to modernize its governance system and capacity.

CPPCC missions require deep insight from political advisers

The second plenary session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference opened on Sunday.

US trying to make waves in South China Sea again

Despite the Hanoi talks between US President Donald Trump and top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea concluding early without an agreement, the Pentagon announced on Saturday that the US and the Republic of Korea have decided to discontinue the large scale military drills they conduct each year in a show of force intended to intimidate Pyongyang.

Unscrupulous greed taints pork products with virus

IN A NEWS CONFERENCE ON FRIDAY, the Ministry of Public Security said that police nationwide have so far prevented more than 140 tons of pork or pork products carrying African swine virus from entering the market and detained 90 criminal suspects in 32 criminal cases. Beijing News comments:

Math master performance not the end of the world

THE CHINESE DELEGATION ranked sixth in the Romanian Master of Mathematics competition, which finished in Bucharest on Feb 25. None of the six Chinese contestants got a gold medal. China Daily reporter Li Yang comments:

Moneymaking collusion of art circle exposed

Editor's note: Christian Silvain, a Belgian artist, has censured Ye Yongqing, a professor of oil painting at the Chongqing-based Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, for plagiarizing his works for more than 30 years. China Fine Arts Web comments in its WeChat account:

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