The head of the World Intellectual Property Organization, or WIPO, believes the just concluded Second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation is important for the protection of intellectual property rights, as well as support for multiculturalism.
The Belt and Road Initiative, or BRI, should foster a rule-based environment, where legal obligations are met, transparency is promoted and the rule of law is sustained, said the United Nations' top legal officer.
As a major forum convenes in Beijing, environmentalists are optimistic that tangible outcomes on a green Belt and Road Initiative will be realized.
That Italy recently became the first G7 country to join the Belt and Road Initiative sends a strong signal that this is the beginning of a new era for multilateralism. The memorandum of understanding signed between Beijing and Rome under the Belt and Road framework during President Xi Jinping's visit to Italy last month is a message to other European Union member states to join the China-proposed initiative.
Editor's note: Beijing and Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, are preparing to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. How will the Winter Games influence the development of winter sports and the winter sports industry in China? And what measures should be taken to promote winter sports and the winter sports industry in the country? Two experts share their views with China Daily's Wang Kan. Excerpts follow:
The US decision on Monday to not reissue the sanction waivers allowing major importers to continue buying oil from Iran after they expire in early May is a grave challenge to global rules and norms.
The Belt and Road Initiative has seen plenty of questions and suspicions surrounding its purpose, feasibility and prospects in the less than six years of its existence.
AT ITS 10TH SESSION in Beijing on Tuesday, the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress, the nation's top legislature, revised eight laws, including the Law on Judges and the Law on Procurators. ThePaper.cn comments:
WITH AVENGERS: ENDGAME in cinemas those giving away the plot and ending have come in for criticism. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang looks at why people do not like spoilers:
Editor's note: The case of a woman in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, safeguarding her consumer rights in a sensational manner after purchasing an SUV from a Mercedes-Benz dealer that she claimed was defective has been settled, but it has drawn attention to the practices of multinationals. Rednet.cn comments:
The death toll of the multiple explosions which ripped through Sri Lanka on Sunday has risen to 359, according to a police report released on Wednesday. While mourning alongside Sri Lankans, the world community needs to shore up greater resolve and build a broader consensus to counter extremism and terrorism worldwide.
The first-ever summit between Democratic People's Republic of Korea leader Kim Jong-un and Russian President Vladimir Putin, held in Vladivostok, Russia, is the latest of a series of diplomatic endeavors that Kim has conducted since last year, so far effectively, to counter the "maximum pressure" imposed by the United States.
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