No scheme to assimilate Uygurs

2009-07-30 07:48:38

I was at Urumqi airport for a flight to Shanghai at 18:30 on July 5, as an escort for a group from the United States. Our four-day visit to Urumqi and Kashgar in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region was most informative and interesting. We were basking in the joy of the trip and unaware of the creeping danger in other parts of the regional capital.

Mutual trust can ride over challenges

2009-07-30 07:49:05

US President Barack Obama said:"No one nation can meet the challenges of the 21st century on its own, nor effectively advance its interests in isolation. It is this fundamental truth that compels us to cooperate."

Many degrees of employment

2009-07-29 07:53:33

If getting a job has become a problem for university graduates, creating new ones for them has been giving sleepless nights to policymakers.

Japan paper adds to worries

2009-07-28 07:52:22

On July 17, the Japanese cabinet approved the White Paper on Defense for 2009 in a meeting.

This dialogue promises to be different

2009-07-28 07:53:06

Casual observers could be forgiven for wondering what the China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED), which began in Washington yesterday, means or if it would yield any desired result at all.

It's all about belief in Jakarta's positive economic future

2009-07-28 07:53:06

For US businessman Jim Castle, July 17 was like the rerun of a horror story. Six years ago, Jim and his wife were having lunch in JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta when a car bomb exploded just outside the hotel entrance, throwing the Castles to the floor and killing a Dutch businessman seated just 15 m away. The couple were saved only because their table was shielded from the line of the blast.

China, US should find common ground in strategic dialogue

2009-07-27 07:43:54

The first meeting of the China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue is due to be held in Washington today and tomorrow.

Some hits, some misses on Clinton's India visit

2009-07-24 07:48:32

George W. Bush's eight years in the White House transformed the tenor of India-US ties, especially in the defense and nuclear fields.

More private capital is needed

2009-07-24 07:47:37

The Chinese economy has bottomed out and, aided by a slew of stimulus policies and measures, is now recovering, according to the latest statistics.

Farewell France, bonjour Britain in EU

2009-07-27 10:06:40

July 14 was the first day of the new European Parliament (EP), and it saw the first clash between Nick Griffin, leader of the far-right British National Party leader and member of EP, and Baroness Glenys Kinnock, Britain's minister for the European Union (EU).

True modernity in modern days

2009-07-23 07:49:08

I had the occasion to travel through many large cities in western Europe and Japan recently, searching for the true meaning of modernity. The past three decades of reform and opening up have pushed China further up the Western modernization ladder.

Shared vision of peace, from EU to Asia

2009-07-23 07:49:42

Europe's long-standing relationship with South East Asia is shifting into a new gear this year. Our mutual engagement is growing closer and deeper, particularly in the area of building peace, security and cooperation around the globe.