In the past years as China Daily's correspondent first in New York and now in Washington, I have taken time to interview those American China hands that have spent their lives working on China and relations between China and the United States.
BEIJING IS VEILED IN THE WORST SMOG INabout six months, and the heavily polluted haze is expected to continue shrouding the capital and its surrounding areas in Hebei province and Tianjin.
To curb the number of smoggy days, many cities have drafted anti-pollution plans, but they lack the support of compulsory laws.
Many observers regard the rise of the unoccupied modern "ghost towns" in China, which have been funded through risk-laden local government financing vehicles, as symptoms of a coming collapse.
Over the past couple of days, the international media has been using the phrase "Umbrella Revolution" to describe the recent events in Hong Kong. From a local point of view, many of us feel a bit strange, and perhaps uncomfortable with that description.
In the past 16 years, Golden Weeks have all proved to be "golden messes"; the just concluded National Day holiday being no exception.
As Chinese tourists swarmed to tourist destinations during the National Day holiday bad manners appeared in public. In Tian'anmen Square, street cleaners collected 3.5 tons of trash after the flag-raising ceremony on the first day of the holiday.
The nomination of two young Chinese-American scientists, who received their college education in China from the 1970s to 1980s for this year's Nobel Prize in physics should encourage young Chinese scientists to realize their innovative capabilities and fulfill their potential.
For mature tourist sites, the revenue from ticket sales represents only a small portion of the profits they can generate.
What are the governing ideas of China's new leadership? In which direction is China heading? Will China continue its reform and opening-up policy? What is the basis of China's foreign policy? Such questions often arise.
Lord Palmerston,a British foreign secretary and two-time prime minister under Queen Victoria, once said of Britain, "We have no permanent allies, we have no permanent enemies, we only have permanent interests."
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