Changing forms of greetings signify social changes
China has made great efforts to better protect its environment. What are the achievements and challenges? In the first of a series of commentaries, a senior journalist of China Daily tries to find the answers.
Branstad a victim of Washington's selfish, disruptive foreign policy
US Ambassador to China Terry Branstad’s announcement on Monday that he would retire and leave Beijing early next month took many by surprise, and triggered speculations on whether his decision was prompted by the recent row over his op-ed submission to the People’s Daily or for the sake of US domestic election campaign.
Consultation, not a trade war, will settle bilateral disputes
The trade friction between the United States and China does not signify a tipping point in the Sino-US relationship, experts have said, even though the two countries have slapped tariffs on billions of dollars of each other's goods.
First remove the log from your own eye
Americans are now blaming a host of social ills－stagnant wages, de-industrialization, inequality－even obesity and drug addiction－on globalization. More to the point, politicians and pundits of all stripes are blaming China. But most of the bad stuff that has happened in the US economy has little to do with globalization or China. Instead, it is caused by bad domestic economic policies followed over the last 30 years.
Shaobing stack up as perfect treat
When I think of shaobing, the fried flatbread that has become a favorite treat of mine from my mother-in-law's kitchen in rural Zhejiang province, I often recall a sultry August afternoon a few years back, when, amid the drone of late-summer cicadas, she invited me to sit at a wooden stool beside her well-worn cutting board to teach me how to prepare it from scratch.
Neighbors must make concerted efforts to fully embrace treaty
Premier Li Keqiang has officially invited his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe to visit China from Thursday to Saturday. It will be the first official visit to China by a Japanese prime minister in seven years.
Weigh pros and cons before randomly using AI technology
AI can raise productivity and expand GDP, but it can also render non-adaptive workers jobless.
Strikes against Syria unwarranted
Since the outbreak of the "Arab Spring" seven years ago, much has changed in the political and security landscape in the Middle East. What has not changed is the fact that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad remains persona non grata for the United States and its allies
