IPCC's call for action should be welcomed

The 2018 United Nations climate change conference, now in session in Katowice, Poland, had to take an unplanned day off on Sunday, because the United States, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait blocked the endorsement of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's special report on what would happen if the average global temperatures rise by 1.5 degrees, and how to ensure they don't.

Cartoon

Great reconstruction of global cooperation is imperative

If the "Great Disruption" of 2018 is to be overcome, the world will need a new framework for global cooperation. After World War II, the international community came together to design a set of institutional structures that facilitated collaboration in pursuit of a shared future. Now, it must do so again.

Back and forth on trade can be expected in months ahead

China and the United States agreed to suspend tariff hikes and restart trade talks at the meeting between President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump in Argentina on Dec 1.

Local govts can never override the rule of law

ON DEC 7, the local environmental protection bureau of Quyang county, North China's Hebei province, said on its official WeChat public account that two local residents were detained for burning low-quality coal. Beijing News comments:

Schools' discriminatory moves on poor students must be curbed

ON DEC 4, Shenzhen Luoling Foreign Language Experimental School posted a notice on its official website, dividing the families applying for their children to attend the school into groups depending on the size of the houses they own. Thepaper.cn comments:

Canada should not let US dictate its politics

Vancouver said earlier that it would not "let politics slip into decisions" when Canada refused to join the other four "Five Eyes" - Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States - in banning China's Huawei Technologies from participating in the 5G mobile networks in their countries.

Anti-graft momentum must not abate for clean governance

China has enough reason to take pride in what it has achieved in its fight against corruption on the 15th International Anti-Corruption Day which fell on Sunday. The country is not only well on the way to building a mechanism to place power in the cage of law. It has also achieved a great deal in its cooperation with other countries in tracking down economic criminal suspects that have fled overseas.

Scientists need more caution with gene drives

AT THE RECENT UNITED NATIONS Conference on Bio-Diversity (CBD), held in Egypt, a move to impose a global moratorium on the release of biotechnologies into the environment failed. China Youth Daily comments:

Cartoon

China-US trade dispute enters second half

China and the United States reached a consensus to suspend tariff hikes and restart trade talks at the meeting between President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump in Argentina on Dec 1. Yet the Canadian police detained Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's global chief financial officer, and could deport her to the United States where she could face charges for evading US curbs on trade with Iran.

Creating GM babies against medical ethics

Chinese Researcher He Jiankui's claim to have used the gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 to modify the CCR5 gene of twin female embryos has been met with shock and outrage across the world of science.