Legal cannabis undermines drug fight

ON MONDAY, China National Narcotics Control Commission released a report on the fight against drugs in 2018, which showed that the amount of cannabis smuggled from North America has seen a sharp rise. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

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China has to reshape global value chain

As the world undergoes unprecedented changes, China faces risks it has not encountered in its four decades of reform and opening-up. The trade war the United States has launched against China is set to disrupt and reshape the global industrial chain, value chain and supply chain. As a result, China has to make a new plan to further integrate with the world market - currently dominated by multinationals - in a bid to achieve industrial upgrading.

It's vital to save our forests to save ourselves

What if no forests are left by 2050?

There should be no place for illegal actions, radicalism in HK

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's social development and economic prowess can be attributed to social harmony and stability, which risk being undermined by the large-scale demonstrations against the proposed changes to the region's extradition laws. Perhaps this threat to social harmony and stability prompted Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor on Saturday to suspend the process for amendments to the SAR's Fugitive Offenders Ordinance and the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Ordinance.

Xi's trip to Pyongyang positive, timely move

Courtesy demands reciprocity. After Kim Jong-un visited China four times in less than 10 months, President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to Pyongyang on Thursday and Friday. This would be the first visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea by China's top State leader since 2005.

Hong Kong people should reject violent radicalism

Social harmony and stability have been crucial to sustaining the social development and economic vitality of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. These are now at risk of being undermined by the controversies surrounding changes to the SAR's extradition laws.

More must be done to reduce deaths from high-rise drop-offs

DESPITE THE EFFORTS OF LOCAL DOCTORS, a 5-year-old boy died on Sunday morning, three days after being hit by a window falling from a high-rise apartment building not far from his home in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. China Daily writer Li Yang comments:

Modern techniques can benefit TCM

ON MONDAY, Nobel Prize winner Tu Youyou's team announced progress in the treatment of artemisinin-resistant malaria. Artemisinin is the main effective component of major kinds of drugs against certain types of malaria. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

Balderdash to claim foreign investment is fleeing China

Editor's note: Against the backdrop of a marked slowdown in global foreign direct investment, the data released by the Ministry of Commerce showed the foreign investment actually used in China in the first five months of this year reached 369.06 billion yuan ($57.75 billion), an increase of 6.8 percent year-on-year, proving untrue Washington's argument that its tariffs imposed on China will cause foreign companies to move out of China. A China Media Group online article comments:

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US overconfidence led to the trade war

By increasing the tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods from 10 percent to 25 percent, the United States has launched a trade war against China. Worse, the US claims China provoked the trade war by insisting on a substantially rewritten draft agreement, which according to the US reneged on previously agreed terms, which is not true. Instead, no agreement could be reached between the two sides despite the many rounds of negotiations because of the hard stance the US had adopted.