Save rare plants from the table, please!

ON WEDNESDAY, an online food livestreamer named Outdoor Eater posted a video clip online, in which he pulled a snow lotus out of the ground in Tibet and boiled it with his noodles. The damage done to the local environment is more than he could imagine. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

Some HK media beyond the pale

When the US leader announced he was raising tariffs on the goods imported from China by an extra 5 percent, Apple Daily, a newspaper based in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, declared it was "More good news".

Washington will never be allowed to control China's fate

How dare it? That was the message from the United States leader, who, announcing extra tariffs on $550 billion worth of Chinese imports, declared that China "should not" have put tariffs on a further $75 billion of US products.

One voice needed over Amazon fires

French President Emmanuel Macron has called the raging fires in the Amazon rainforest "an international crisis" and threatened to pull out of a planned trade deal with Brazil and its regional partners should the latter fail to respond properly. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson sees a need for international action "to extinguish the fires and to protect habitat and biodiversity". And even the leader of the United States, a famous disbeliever in climate change, has offered to help deal with them.

Fentanyl abuse in US entirely its own responsibility

Editor's note: Abuse of Fentanyl is a major problem in the United States, but rather than facing up to the real causes some politicians in the country are trying to push the responsibility onto China. Zhong Sheng, a columnist for People's Daily, comments:

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US threat to WTO won't get it anywhere

The US leader signed a memorandum on July 26, directing the Office of the United States Trade Representative to stop treating "advanced economies" such as China as developing countries according to the World Trade Organization's rules, and urging the WTO to change its definition for developing country within 90 days. But since major reforms to the WTO require consensus (in effect unanimity) among all members, the world trade body cannot change the definition, even if it wants to.

A plea to fight climate change and save Earth

A few months ago, I was in Shanghai, promoting China-Europe trade and economic cooperation. People everywhere, not just in China or Europe, need trade and employment, and poverty anywhere constitutes a danger to prosperity everywhere.

Developing socialist ecological civilization

Since its founding, New China has been highlighting the importance of preserving resources, protecting the environment and promoting the construction of ecological civilization, making significant progress in those areas.

China, Russia strengthen financial ties

China and Russia have agreed to strengthen cooperation in the financial sector, particularly in the bond market, with an aim of jointly supporting global economic growth following a high-level bilateral financial dialogue that ended this week.

Jiangsu maintains stable economic growth in H1

As one of the country's major trade regions, East China's Jiangsu province maintained stable economic growth in the first half of this year, despite Sino-US trade friction, said its governor.

Huawei launches its own AI computing framework

Huawei Technologies Co officially launched its own computing framework for artificial intelligence on Friday, as the Chinese tech giant aims to develop an alternative to Google's TensorFlow platform given US government restrictions.