Airlines right to seek damages from Boeing

Editor's Note: All the 13 Chinese airlines that have bought Boeing 737 Max 8 are seeking compensation from Boeing for losses of about 4 billion yuan ($579.69 million) because they had to ground 737 Max 8 aircraft. The airlines grounded these aircraft after two 737 Max 8 crashed within six months due to the same technological problem killing 346 people. Will the Chinese airlines succeed in claiming compensation? Three experts share their views on the issue with China Daily's Liu Jianna. Excerpts follow:

Going against trends of the times not making America great again

WITHDRAWING FROM INTERNATIONAL TREATIES, building border walls and starting trade wars, the United States seems to be intent on reconstructing the postwar international order that it built itself. People's Daily comments:

New UK leader expected to promote Sino-UK relations

Going, going, and finally gone. That Theresa May's tenure as British prime minister has come to an end with the announcement of her resignation on Friday is no surprise to people both inside and outside Britain. After all, as the British leader tasked with taking her country out of the European Union, she failed to produce an acceptable deal for the country to proceed with its exit from the EU.

Something is amiss with US political discourse on China

It seems as if pointing accusing fingers at China has become political correctness in the United States. As a result, US officials are now accustomed to speaking with a forked tongue when it comes to China.

Different point of view for US public

CHINA GLOBAL TELEVISION NETWORK BROADCASTER LIU XIN will engage in a live debate on the trade war between China and the United States on Fox Business Network on Thursday morning Beijing time at the invitation of Fox host Trish Regan. China Daily Li Yang comments:

Washington falling into a trap of its own making

Editor's note: Some US politicians have been clamoring that China has stolen US technologies, and aims to be the global space leader. Zhong Sheng, a columnist of People's Daily, comments:

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A tariff war will harm the US too

By hiking the tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods from 10 percent to 25 percent just when it seemed the China-US trade talks would achieve a breakthrough, the United States has not only intensified the trade dispute but also ensured both sides take a knock.

'Clash of civilizations' narrative dangerous

Speaking at a recent defense forum in Washington, Kiron Skinner, director of policy planning in the US Department of State, described the United States' competition with China as "a fight with a really different civilization and a different ideology". She also said that the "Cold War constituted... a fight within the Western family", while the coming conflict with China is "the first time that we will have a great power competitor that is not Caucasian".

HK and Macao residents should more actively propel reform

In the 70 years since its founding, the People's Republic of China has made remarkable achievements thanks to the leadership of the Communist Party of China and the hard work of its people. The Hong and Macao special administrative regions, too, have helped in the country's economic development.

Measures proposed to encourage innovation

China will provide greater fiscal support and better protection of intellectual property rights to encourage its leading tech firms to step up research, an official with the country's top industry regulator said on Friday.

China to boost clean energy deployment

To encourage and accelerate the deployment of hydrogen energy and promote sustainable growth, China plans to build four "hydrogen corridors" in the Yangtze River Delta region based on the expressway network in the area by 2021, with additional hydrogenation infrastructure facilities linking cities in the region.