Leaked documents like confession from Facebook

Editor's Note: Nearly 7,000 pages of confidential Facebook documents were recently leaked, covering how Facebook used user data as a bargaining chip to cement its dominance, how it plans to monitor the location of Android users, and how it controls competitors and even kills them before incubation. Beijing News comments:

Plague cases no cause for panic

News that two people from Inner Mongolia have been diagnosed with pneumonic plague, which was confirmed by Beijing's local health authorities on Tuesday, has drawn a lot of public attention and even sparked panic. Which is not surprising, given the high mortality rate of the highly contagious disease, whose symptoms include fever, shortness of breath, chest pain and cough.

There can be no lawless land in HK - that includes university campuses

The subversives in Hong Kong have stepped up their crusade to paralyze the city with a "blossom everywhere" campaign of violence and vandalism across the city.

Tsai's travel trick will not avail her

It seems the Tsai Ing-wen administration has forgotten the inconvenience it caused Taiwan compatriots during the Spring Festival holiday last year, when it prevented some airlines from providing additional flights.

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BRICS to continue promoting global peace

The 11th BRICS Summit in Brasilia, which concludes on Thursday, ushers in the second "golden decade" for the grouping of five emerging market economies. At the summit in the Brazilian capital, the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa will discuss how to deepen cooperation and strengthen BRICS' role in global governance, which of late has been facing major challenges.

A golden opportunity for China and Brazil

Brazil is hosting, for the third time, a BRICS Summit. The summit is expected to result in pragmatic decisions, fostering cooperation among the five countries.

Migrants' death yet again reveals Western bias against China

Three weeks ago 39 illegal Vietnamese migrants were found dead in a container truck in Essex, Britain, in a shocking case of human smuggling. Equally shocking was the way some Western media outlets initially covered the tragic news. Thanks to their inherent bias against China, they presumed the unfortunate victims were Chinese nationals, and didn't even bother apologizing for violating journalism ethics. And they kept asking why these "Chinese" (later they changed "Chinese" to "Vietnamese") risked their lives despite their country's fast economic development.

China-Greece ties testify to wisdom of pursuing dynamic cooperation

The visit by President Xi Jinping and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday to Piraeus Port, during the Chinese leader's three-day state visit to Greece, highlighted how the two countries have worked together to pursue mutually beneficial cooperation and achieve fruitful outcomes in trade, investment and infrastructure cooperation.

Rioters' sense of mission delusional

When the radical protesters in Hong Kong viciously attack those who oppose their views and law enforcers trying to maintain public order, as well as anyone they believe to be from the Chinese mainland, they seem willing to justify their descent into the depths of inhumanity by convincing themselves they are fighting the good fight for what is right.

NATO should beware US love of walls

The White House did not specify what topics United States President Donald Trump and NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg will discuss at their working meeting scheduled for Thursday.

India's hesitation will not delay RCEP

Editor's Note: The third Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership leaders' meeting held in Bangkok, Thailand, on Nov 4 issued a joint statement announcing that the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and ASEAN's six FTA partners - australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea - had concluded negotiations on substantial issues and planned to sign an agreement by 2020. 21st Century Business Herald comments: