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A recent widely circulated photograph showing a girl taking care of her baby cousin at a class reflects the plight of left-behind children. Three experts discuss how their lot can be improved.
China's aid to needy African countries is justified because it reflects its commitment to the rest of the world as a responsible country.
Despite 2,000 years of interactions, the rapid growth in business ties during the past two decades and the reemergence of India and China in the global arena, India has failed to produce first-class institutions and scholars of China.
For all its unwieldiness and amorphous sense of purpose, the G20 represents the beginnings of an understanding, as necessary as it is reluctant, that a global economy with new growth sources must have a new structure of governance.
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou's call to hold a referendum on the rescue package agreed at the eurozone summit has profound implications for European governance. It may also determine the future of the euro.
Washington's allegation against Teheran for plotting the Saudi ambassador's assassination is a prelude to tougher US actions against Iran.
As Europe's economy remains on the brink, the idea of a "debt brake" is one of the most important policy tools to get fiscal policy under control.
Governing the country according to the law and building a socialist state with rule of law are fundamental strategies for running the country under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.
To build itself into a cultural power, China faces the urgent task of safeguarding its "cultural security", strengthening its soft power and boosting the international influence of its culture.
Many Chinese people love foreign goods, especially reputable brands. The wealthy flock to Paris, New York and Hong Kong snapping up goods ranging from bags and jewelry to milk powder.
The gathering force of public protests is the popular expression of an obvious fact: that growing economic uncertainty, market volatility and mounting inequality have reached a point of crisis.
Road crashes are not just random accidents. They are indicative of a much larger problem. In China, road crashes rank only behind drowning as the leading killer of children between the age of 5 and 14.