Lenovo unveils upgraded high-performance computing platform

Tech firm Lenovo Group Ltd unveiled its upgraded high-performance computing platform on Friday, as the country's tech giants pushed forward the research and development of supercomputers in an attempt to post global leading breakthroughs.

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West viewing Xinjiang through prism of bias

Abuse of sympathy is often the result of a lack of empathy.

US real focus of Tsai's trip to the Caribbean

Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen is on another overseas trip seeking to cement ties with the island's dwindling "diplomatic allies". This time to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis and Haiti.

Enhancing friendship, cooperation, assistance in accordance with treaty

THURSDAY MARKED the 58th anniversary of the Treaty of Friendship Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. People's Daily comments:

Keep toxic foreign teachers away from kids

ON WEDNESDAY, the local police in Xuzhou city, East China's Jiangsu province, said that they had caught 19 suspected drug-takers, seven of them foreign teachers employed by EF Education and nine of them students. ThePaper.cn comments:

Bulging dam just a quirk of Google Earth

Editor's note: Citing Google Earth's high precision map of the largest dam in the world as evidence, some people claim that the Three Gorges Dam in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River is already seriously deformed, and is thus on the brink of breaking. Mao Xiaoping, a researcher in energy science at the China University of Geosciences, counters the claims in an article published by Beijing News on Thursday:

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Continuity marks EU-China relations

The new European Union leadership is unlikely to change the current trend in EU-China relations, which are based on a pragmatic mix of cooperation and competition. At the same time, the leaders will have to give priority to a number of pressing domestic concerns.

Subsidy a pretext for US to intensify trade row

Industrial subsidy has become a bone of contention between China and the United States. The US claims that, through its industrial policy, China gives subsidies and financial support to its domestic industries thereby distorting the market. But the fact is, the US itself provides huge amounts in form of industrial subsidy for its domestic enterprises.

The whole world should know about John Rabe, hero of Nanjing

I went to Hamburg last weekend to cover the concert version of the opera The Diaries of John Rabe in the landmark Elbphilharmonie, but to me it was really an emotional trip to pay tribute to Rabe who was born in the German port city on Nov 23, 1882.

Chinese story with universal appeal

THE TRAILER FOR MULAN, a Disney movie based on its previous animation about the ancient Chinese legend, has been released and Chinese viewers have been quick to criticize it. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments: