Multiple channels needed to keep job market healthy

The Chinese government has accorded priority to achieving stable and expanding employment among its six stabilization tasks. The importance of stable employment has also been highlighted in this year's Government Work Report. And the State Council, China's Cabinet, recently established the Employment Work Leading Group headed by Vice-Premier Hu Chunhua to deal with employment issues.

China-Russia ties too strong to be destabilized by US designs

There have been murmurs that the relationships among the United States, Russia and China are undergoing changes. Even commercial projects initiated by some Chinese enterprises have been politicized and used as examples by the Western media to claim China-Russia relations are no longer that strong.

Nothing exceptional about America except its immorality

Editor's note: Some in the United States are accustomed to applying a double standard and "American exceptionalism" in international affairs, and in their eyes the rules are used to constrain other countries and have nothing to do with the US. Zhong Sheng, a columnist for People's Daily, comments:

Take pains to promote labor analgesia

AT A NEWS CONFERENCE ON MONDAY, the National Health Commission said that the rate of Caesarean deliveries nationwide was 36.7 percent in 2018, which is lower than the 46 percent in a World Health Organization survey in 2010. They also said that they would popularize measures such as labor analgesia to encourage more pregnant women to choose natural births. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

Attack on Huawei is stealing from the future

On one side is telecommunications equipment provider Huawei, a private company seen as a symbol of China's technological prowess.

Collateral damage in trade war cannot be estimated

Could there be a winner in the current trade war between the United States and China? There could, according to the White House which having initiated the trade war, expects to win it.

US has reaped huge benefits from China's reform and opening-up

THE US ADMINISTRATION has claimed the trade agreement with China cannot be a 50-50 pact, because China has profited at the United States' expenses for too long, and China has been a free rider since it entered the World Trade Organization in 2001. Guangming Daily comments:

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Trade dispute could lead to global recession

Trade tensions are the single biggest factor weighing on global corporate confidence today. They also pose a significant and credible threat to the global business cycle, as policy-easing measures can only offset the negative impacts up to a point. Truth be told, the window for addressing trade tensions in a way that avoids significant additional damage to the global cycle is relatively short. Indeed, developments in recent weeks have increased the risk of an extended period of escalation, with attendant downside risks to global growth.

Rare earths should be given their strategic due

Rare earths are regarded as strategic resources, which can be used both for military and civilian purposes. China has the largest reserves and is the biggest producer of rare earths, especially heavy rare earth elements, and mineral resources such as molybdenum, tungsten, antimony and magnesium.

New European Parliament reflects divided policy options

The results of the elections for the European Parliament are broadly in line with expectations. Although pro-European Union parties have won a majority of the seats, the EP is more fragmented than before with traditional center-right and center-left parties losing seats to Liberals and Greens, and Euroskeptic parties increasing their vote share. This is likely to make it more difficult for the EU to agree new trade deals and choose new leaders for EU institutions.

EU elections leave Brussels walking a political tightrope

The results of the European Parliament elections show pro-European Union political parties have a fragmented majority, while anti-EU right-wing groups on the continent have made eye-catching political gains. There is no doubt this stark divide in public sentiment will have a far-reaching influence on the world's largest trading bloc's decision-making process as well as its interaction with the rest of the world.