US-EU dispute over auto trade could get worse

The dispute over auto trade between the United States and the European Union is becoming more heated and uncertain. US President Donald Trump has threatened to slap additional tariffs of 25 percent on autos imported from the EU if the bloc doesn't agree to a trade agreement favorable to the US.

Huawei victim of Washington's compulsive, obsessive disorder

The war waged by the United States against China's telecommunications company Huawei has been absurd from the very beginning.

US should not let Tsai lead it by the nose

Two US Navy vessels passed through the Taiwan Straits on Monday, less than a week after the island's leader Tsai Ingwen claimed the Chinese mainland posed a military threat to the island in an interview with CNN. Whatever the rationale the United States might be using to justify the move, Tsai and her followers will very likely try to portray it as the US responding to her claim that the mainland is challenging the island's "independent existence".

Are foldable smartphones really the next big thing?

ON SUNDAY, China's tech giant Huawei officially unveiled Huawei Mate X, its first foldable smartphone. That came just five days after Galaxy Fold, the first foldable smartphone of Samsung. But foldables might not be the future of smartphones, two experts tell China Daily's Zhang Zhouxiang:

Beware craze for computer programming training

REPORTEDLY, a training agency in Wenjiao district, Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, has seen the scale of its computer programming class increase exponentially from dozens of students to tens of thousands in three years. China Daily reporter Li Yang comments:

Hanoi meeting can initiate positive changes

Editor's note: US President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, are scheduled to meet in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Wednesday and Thursday. Columnist Niutanqin comments in his WeChat post:

Hot word: Food safety responsibility system

食品安全责任制 (shípǐn ānquán zérènzhì)

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Trump-Kim summit will build more trust

As Democratic People's Republic of Korea top leader Kim Jong-un reached Vietnam on Tuesday for his summit with United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday and Thursday, the international community hopes the two leaders would make substantial progress in the Korean Peninsula denuclearization process.

China, Russia, India working for fairer order

Multi-polarization and globalization remain the broader trend across the world, although the international community seems to be returning to the era of great-power competition.

Economy can resist external pressure

The International Monetary Fund recently lowered its global economic growth outlook amid international trade conflicts. Combined with this, the economic structural adjustment in China has created new and some difficult challenges for the Chinese economy.

Follower fraud figures fake influence of stars

CHINA CENTRAL TELEVISION has uncovered an underground profit chain that creates false data flows for entertainment stars by using software that automatically forwards their micro blog posts to false accounts that "like" them. Thepaper.cn comments: