Outlook for winter sports optimistic

Editor's note: Beijing and Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, are preparing to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. How will the Winter Games influence the development of winter sports and the winter sports industry in China? And what measures should be taken to promote winter sports and the winter sports industry in the country? Two experts share their views with China Daily's Wang Kan. Excerpts follow:

US sanctions on Iran's oil violate international rules

The US decision on Monday to not reissue the sanction waivers allowing major importers to continue buying oil from Iran after they expire in early May is a grave challenge to global rules and norms.

Open, inclusive initiative builds road toward prosperity

The Belt and Road Initiative has seen plenty of questions and suspicions surrounding its purpose, feasibility and prospects in the less than six years of its existence.

Amending two laws consolidates achievements of judicial reform

AT ITS 10TH SESSION in Beijing on Tuesday, the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress, the nation's top legislature, revised eight laws, including the Law on Judges and the Law on Procurators. ThePaper.cn comments:

Spoiler alert, they violate your rights

WITH AVENGERS: ENDGAME in cinemas those giving away the plot and ending have come in for criticism. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang looks at why people do not like spoilers:

Multinationals have ignored the rights of Chinese consumers too many times

Editor's note: The case of a woman in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, safeguarding her consumer rights in a sensational manner after purchasing an SUV from a Mercedes-Benz dealer that she claimed was defective has been settled, but it has drawn attention to the practices of multinationals. Rednet.cn comments:

Coordinated actions key to countering terrorism

The death toll of the multiple explosions which ripped through Sri Lanka on Sunday has risen to 359, according to a police report released on Wednesday. While mourning alongside Sri Lankans, the world community needs to shore up greater resolve and build a broader consensus to counter extremism and terrorism worldwide.

Kim-Putin meeting boosts peninsula peace process

The first-ever summit between Democratic People's Republic of Korea leader Kim Jong-un and Russian President Vladimir Putin, held in Vladivostok, Russia, is the latest of a series of diplomatic endeavors that Kim has conducted since last year, so far effectively, to counter the "maximum pressure" imposed by the United States.

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Kim arrives in Russia for talks

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea's top leader Kim Jong-un's first summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to "consolidate a positive trend" amid stalled DPRK-US talks about denuclearization, experts said.

Chinese investment needed in Djibouti

Unlike the Western investment with strings attached to it, Chinese investment, which is mutually beneficial to both parties and respects the destination country's interest, is much needed, said Abdallah Abdillahi Miguil, Djibouti's ambassador to China.

NASA probe detects likely 'marsquake'

NASA's InSight lander has picked up a gentle rumble on Mars, believed to be the first "marsquake" ever detected, The Associated Press reported.