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.

Lessons from India in digital disruption

Digital technology can rapidly transform how countries provide services such as education and health for their citizens. Public services in the future should be effective, efficient, fair, data-driven and responsive to individual needs. And the groundwork to turn this vision into reality needs to be laid now.

Abe's visit to Iran may not produce desired results

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe concluded his first state visit to Iran, also the first by any Japanese prime minister in 41 years, on Friday at a time when Teheran is at loggerheads with Washington and dark clouds are gathering over the Persian Gulf. Acting as an intermediary between the United States and Iran, Abe hoped to reduce the tensions between the two countries and facilitate dialogue, according to Kyodo News Agency.

Regional cooperation essential to healthy development of Asia

At the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on Saturday, President Xi Jinping promised that China will follow a road of peaceful development, continue opening up to share its development opportunities with other countries and uphold multilateralism to safeguard the international order based on international laws.

Stench of hypocrisy accompanies foreign meddling in Hong Kong

Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has put on hold the legislative process for the extradition law amendment bill so as to remove the excuse for the violence being instigated by those who do not have the SAR's best interests at heart.

Trade war proponents should heed voices of those being hurt in US

Editor's note: On Friday, major US retailers Walmart Inc and Target Corp, along with more than 600 other companies and organizations, issued a letter to the US president and his trade advisers urging them to resolve the trade dispute with China, saying tariffs hurt American businesses and consumers. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

Washington wrong to believe trade relations zero-sum game

ON SUNDAY, the magazine Qiushi published an essay analyzing the ongoing trade frictions between China and the United States. Excerpts below:

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