Beware of recommendations for cosmetics

Today, if a girl wants to buy a new lipstick, she won't have to sift through a sea of products pompously lined on the shelves of stores in malls or standalone shops looking desperately for the one with the most familiar name thanks to the advertisement she happened to catch on TV the day before - like I did a decade ago. She would instead check on Red Book, an app with about 200 million users, among which are a large number of online celebrities and beauty bloggers, for recommendations and lipstick assessment notes of the beauty influencers they follow.

IMF needs reforms to meet new challenges

As a significant multilateral organization, the International Monetary Fund has played an effective role in promoting economic globalization. To begin with, the IMF has helped advance globalization and international trade. It is committed to boosting and better balancing global trade, while helping IMF member states establish a multilateral payment system with the aim of removing the foreign exchange limits that impede the development of global trade.

Clothing brand must come clean on HK 'strike'

ON MONDAY, demonstrators in Hong Kong called for a "strike", asking schools, shops, and factories to close for one day in "protest" against the local government. Their call elicited little response from Hong Kong residents, but some outlets of clothing brand Zara kept their shutters down. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

Online platform to help check the spread of scientific rumors

AN OFFICIAL ONLINE PLATFORM LAUNCHED in Beijing on Saturday will help dispel scientific rumors in the era of the internet, writes China Daily writer Wang Yiqing:

US-Poland deal harks back to Cold War era

It is common and generally beyond reproach when one country partners with another in pursuing mutual benefit, so long as no harm is done to a third party.

Western media's dubious role in Hong Kong stands exposed

Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism. What a visionary Graham Greene was.

Importance of WTO highlighted

With the United States carrying out its threat to levy an additional 15 percent tariffs on the first batch of another $300 billion of Chinese goods on Sunday, the Ministry of Commerce filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization against the US on Monday for violating WTO rules.

China hawks must learn to see reason

Editor's Note: Violating the consensus reached by the presidents of China and the US on the sidelines of the Osaka G20 Summit in June, some in the United States have escalated the trade frictions with China. Zhong Sheng, a columnist for People's Daily, comments:

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Washington's tactics risk reversing positive Korean Peninsula progress

Every walk of life has its jargon and taboos. But as the top diplomat of the United States, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo seems incorrigible in speaking the diplomatic lingo while wagging his tongue as he likes.

Dirty hands, hypocrisy US specialties

Despite its claims that it is playing no part in the ongoing chaos in Hong Kong, the United States continues to reveal its dirty hands.

Japan's debt trap claims ring hollow

In a thinly-veiled criticism of China's Belt and Road Initiative on Friday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe accused China of burdening African countries with "excessive" debt. An accusation that the United States habitually airs in an attempt to smear the initiative and hinder China's cooperation with other developing countries.