Western reporters covering HK protesters need a reality check

The gruesome scene of Fu Guohao, a Global Times reporter, being searched, tied up, humiliated and beaten up by Hong Kong protesters, or more precisely a mob, on Tuesday was broadcast live by many Western news channels.

US politicians' tweets expose their ugly hypocrisy and malice

By whitewashing violence as a struggle for democracy and deliberately misinterpreting the work of Hong Kong police, some US politicians are clearly encouraging criminal acts in the Chinese metropolis and meddling in China's internal affairs.

Japan still has time to atone for crime

THURSDAY MARKS THE 74TH ANNIVERSARY OF JAPAN'S UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER at the end of World War II. The day before is "Comfort Women Day", and on Wednesday we remembered these victims of Japanese aggression, comments China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang:

Consistency required in trade talks

The Sino-US trade spat, which started more than a year ago, has never been short of twists and turns, thanks to a series of about-faces by the US administration.

Expanded occupational diseases list must balance interests of all parties

ACCORDING TO A RECENT MEETING of the Healthy China Action Plan Promotion Committee, cervical spondylosis, periarthritis of the shoulder, backache, hyperostosis and sciatica will not be included on the list of occupational diseases, which means workers will have to pay for treatment themselves. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

Region ready to realize shared vision

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Ministerial Meeting held in Beijing on Aug 2-3, along with the 27th round of RCEP negotiations in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan province, on July 22-30, has helped make some important breakthroughs.

Xinjiang will not be allowed to be like Afghanistan

Editor's note: Obidov Mukhammad Dalimovich, a journalist from Uzbekistan, recently paid a visit to a vocational education and training center in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region where he talked with interviewees and recorded his feelings of Xinjiang and the center. Excerpts:

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US responsible for its farmers' woes

Editor's Note: Last week the Commerce Ministry said Chinese enterprises have halted the purchase of US agricultural products following Washington's threat to impose 10 percent tariffs on another $300 billion of Chinese goods. Two experts share their views on the issue with China Daily's Yao Yuxin. Excerpts follow:

Better IP protection can boost animation sector

The box office collection of more than 2 billion yuan ($300 million) in the first week and its rating of 8.7 out of 10 on Douban, a Chinese film review website, have prompted film critics to say Ne Zha is a milestone for China's animation industry and embodies its inevitable rise.

India's bet on Kashmir could prove dangerous

By revoking the special status of India-administered Kashmir and splitting it into two union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh on Aug 5, New Delhi has opened a Pandora's box. India's unilateral move to fundamentally change the administrative division of the region and seize Pakistani and Chinese territories has angered its two neighbors and invited strong reactions from both.

Predictions of foreign investment slump prove to be wide of the mark

Those who have been predicting China's trade and investment would slump as a result of the trade confrontation with the United States have obviously underestimated the resilience of the Chinese economy.