Heck of a coincidence that Huawei deliveries 'misrouted' by FedEx

TWO PACKAGES CONTAINING COMMERCIAL DOCUMENTS sent from Tokyo to Huawei's office on the Chinese mainland on May 19 and 20, and two other parcels mailed from Hanoi, Vietnam, to Huawei's branches in Hong Kong and Singapore respectively on May 17 all found their way to the United States through the package delivery services of FedEx. China Daily reporter Li Yang comments:

This might be shortest geological era

THE ANTHROPOCENE WORKING GROUP, composed of 34 renowned scientists from around the world, voted this week to designate a new geologic epoch to mark the profound ways in which humans have altered the planet. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

By eating its words US is destroying its own credibility

Editor's note: "Honesty is the best policy", some politicians in Washington seem to have forgotten Benjamin Franklin's famous words, as they have flip-flopped in the trade talks with China. Zhong Sheng, a columnist for People's Daily, comments:

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Trade conflict suggests hard times ahead

The escalating China-US trade friction is unprecedented in the history of bilateral relations. True, when trade begins, trade friction begins, too. And the history of China-US relations since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1979 has been a history of bilateral trade frictions. But the trade frictions in the 1980s were relatively small and less damaging.

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: