Appreciating the great contributions

The air raid siren across Shenyang, Liaoning province, at 9:18 am on Wednesday was a reminder of the pain and humiliation foreign invaders heaped on the Chinese people for more than a century before the founding of New China in 1949. The siren to mark the 88th anniversary of the Mukden Incident the Japanese invaders staged on Sept 18, 1931, to launch a full-scale invasion of China recalled not only the atrocities committed by the foreign invaders on the Chinese people but also the heroic battles the Chinese people have fought throughout China's recent history.

Exhibition a reminder of stolen antiques

AN EXHIBITION OF 600-ODD ANTIQUES RETURNED from overseas since the founding of New China opened at the National Museum of China, Beijing, on Tuesday and will continue until late November. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

Sino-Russian partnership gets verve to improve world order

To the China-Russia partnership, the 24th regular meeting between their heads of government, which concluded in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Wednesday, gave a shot in the arm. There is no better way for the two sides to secure international support as both have come under increasing external pressure to change their diplomatic maneuvering on the global stage.

To retain manufacturing edge, raise workers' pay

Editor's Note: More than 46,000 General Motors' workers affiliated to the United Auto Workers' union went on a strike recently demanding higher pay, better benefits and job security. 21st Century Business Herald comments:

US betrays its disdain for sovereignty

In an obvious show of displeasure with the Solomon Islands leadership's decision to switch diplomatic ties from Taipei to Beijing, US Vice-President Mike Pence has reportedly canceled his planned meeting with the Pacific island country's prime minister on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York - or later in Washington.

By delivering lectures in colleges, academics can cultivate talents

MORE ACADEMICS SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED to deliver lectures to undergraduate students in colleges across the country, because such lectures can help cultivate talents. China Daily writer Wang Yiqing comments:

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Climate change: A race we must win

We face a new era of climate crisis. July 2019 was the hottest month on record, and the period from 2015 to 2019 is on track to become the five hottest years in human history.

Affordable solutions better than exaggerations

Ahead of the Climate Action Summit that will bring together world leaders in New York on Sept 23, exaggeration about global warming is greater than ever. While some pundits continue, incorrectly, to insist that global warming is a made-up story, far more insist, also incorrectly, that we face an imminent climate crisis.

Attacks on Saudi oil facilities could trigger more conflicts

The drone attacks on two Saudi Arabian oil facilities on Saturday could have serious regional and global consequences. The Saudi Arabian Oil Company (or Saudi Aramco) that was targeted is a global energy giant and perhaps the world's most valuable company.

China should be prepared to deal with an oil exigency

Editor's Note: Drones attacked the world's largest oil processing plants and a major oil field in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, disrupting more than 5 percent of the global crude oil supply. Which has raised crude oil futures by 10 to 20 percent, the biggest rise in a day since the 1991 Iraq War. 21st Century Business Herald comments:

Another blow for Taiwan separatists

The Solomon Islands' move to formally sever its "political ties" with Taiwan and establish diplomatic relations with Beijing is another triumph of the one-China principle and a warning to the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party administration in Taipei to abandon its separatist policies.