Hasty response will aggravate Syria crisis

The shadow of war that has fallen over Syria is darkening with US President Donald Trump raising his pitch with each passing day and threatening "missiles will be coming" in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack on Saturday.

No tariffs on imported cancer drugs good for patients and pharma firms

PREMIER LI KEQIANG stressed that China will lower tariffs on imported cancer drugs to zero during a visit to a foreign pharmaceutical company in Shanghai on Tuesday. Beijing News comments:

Imperative to crack down on pyramid scams

THE STATE ADMINISTRATION FOR MARKET REGULATION recently announced that it had drawn up a list of 11 key cities that should take action against pyramid selling, and it will monitor their performance in this regard in 2018. Thepaper.cn comments:

Graduate grab by hospitals reflects shortage of talent

TALENT RECRUITMENT competition in the medical field is conducive to not only the performance of hospitals, but also the entire society. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

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A new era of all together, nobody first

The Boao Forum for Asia, held every spring in South China's Hainan province, has become known to many as "the Davos of the East". However, as an annual economic conclave, the Boao Forum represents a set of ideas very different from those economic forums where Western business and political interests dominate and set the rules for globalization that is synonymous with Americanization, or promote a set of ideas associated with the "Washington Consensus", which Europe has felt obliged to buy into as a matter of long-held North Atlantic interests.

New 'Cold War' between US, Russia looming

On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump tweeted that "nice, new and 'smart'" missiles would soon be fired toward Syria, arousing concerns that the United States and Russia's tussle in Syria will further escalate.

UK-China ties will go from strength to strength

At the beginning of this year, Prime Minister Theresa May visited China to open a new chapter in the "Golden Era" of UK-China relations. I am pleased to return to China this week at what is a crucial moment in our relationship.

US' demonizing of Chinese FDI a shot in the foot

There will likely be a sharp decline in Chinese foreign direct investment in the United States in 2017, partly as a result of China's tighter control of capital outflow, but also because the US government and lawmakers increasingly view Chinese FDI through the lens of geopolitics.

Insights into Xi's thoughts on governance for the new era

I am very pleased to come to London to host together with all of you the launch ceremony for the multilingual versions of the second volume of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, during the London Books Fair, the most important spring pageant of the global publication industry.

US should not force China to shut door to it

In an opinion piece for the Financial Times this week, US President Donald Trump's top trade adviser Peter Navarro accused Beijing of building "a Great Wall of denial" about what he alleged was its "illicit and protectionist" behavior.

Looted cultural heritage ought to be restituted

Canterbury Auction Galleries in the United Kingdom has turned a deaf ear to the State Administration of Cultural Heritage's urging that it cancel the auction of a rare Chinese bronze water vessel looted by a British soldier from Beijing's Old Summer Palace in 1860.