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Op-Ed Contributors
The successful holding of the Beijing Olympics and Paralympics was a landmark in the three decades of reform and opening up and a great experience for the Chinese people on their road to building a relatively better-off society.
The upward trend of Chinese-Australian relationship based on economic interdependence will carry on despite recent events. Upgrading the long-established bilateral friendship requires both sides to resolve disputes reasonably and display mutual understanding in economic and political spheres.
Sitting on a chair in her humble teahouse, now surrounded by piles of rubble and bricks, Lao Zeng says she misses the days when she used to earn about 1,500 yuan ($219.57) a month to support her family.
When I read the news that there are more millionaires in China than in Britain, I did a Google search and found to my surprise that there are over 10 million entries under "Chinese super-rich". Their extravagant consumption behavior do catch the attention of Westerners, especially those who want to push their luxury items in this ballooning market.
Increasing trade restrictions against Chinese products signify a discordant resurgence of protectionism - a development that will not only hurt China, but also hamper global economic recovery.
The spread of HIV/AIDS may have been arrested for now, but the disease always poses a threat. UNAIDS China coordinator Dr Bernhard Schwartlander shares his views on the disease and the situation in the country with Shan Juan of China Daily.
The first round of the China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue concluded on Tuesday with consensus on a number of issues ranging from anti-terrorism, regional threats and military exchanges to global warming, environmental protection and developing new energy options.
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.
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."
If getting a job has become a problem for university graduates, creating new ones for them has been giving sleepless nights to policymakers.
On July 17, the Japanese cabinet approved the White Paper on Defense for 2009 in a meeting.
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.
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.
The first meeting of the China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue is due to be held in Washington today and tomorrow.
George W. Bush's eight years in the White House transformed the tenor of India-US ties, especially in the defense and nuclear fields.
The Chinese economy has bottomed out and, aided by a slew of stimulus policies and measures, is now recovering, according to the latest statistics.
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).
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.
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.
It is in the interest of a peaceful world that China becomes strong and stable, and contributes to the global balance of powers. But its dependence upon foreign know-how is not contributing to this long-term goal, instead its intention of turning the country into a research and innovation base is a step in the right direction.
As world leaders are slated to gather in Copenhagen this month to find a replacement to the Kyoto Protocol, talks about climate change are gathering steam. But is climate change the most pressing threat for mankind?
There has been a suggestion recently that tests in classical Chinese language are unnecessary.
Asia has rebounded fast from the depth of the global crisis. Initially, the region was hit extremely hard, with output in most countries shrinking by much more than even those nations at the epicenter of the crisis.
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