The new tripartite defense alliance AUKUS, formed with the intention of intimidating China, will strain ASEAN's unity and integration as regional countries are divided over the pact, experts said Wednesday, noting that if it sparks an arms race, it threatens ...
China vowed to strengthen its own biodiversity protection and release implementation plans for peaking carbon dioxide emissions while investing 1.5 billion yuan ($233 million) to support biodiversity protection in developing countries at the biggest biodiversity conference in a decade on ...
China on Tuesday announced it would formally establish its first batch of five national parks, including the Sanjiangyuan National Park, the Wuyi Mountain National Park, the Giant Panda National Park, the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park and the ...
Due to a turbulent political situation, worsening coronavirus infection, over 10,000 Chinese nationals are waiting at Ruili, a China-Myanmar border city to turn themselves in, in order to return to China, putting great pressure on the border city Ruili as ...
The State Council, China's cabinet, has unveiled the outlines of a development plan for women and children over the coming decade that aims to boost the birth rate by achieving a gender-equal society.
Sobering air raid sirens in numerous cities, silent tributes observed by ordinary Chinese on streets across the country, airing of documentaries about trials of Japanese war criminals on national television and countless messages of "never forget" on social media platforms ...
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly denounced UK Parliament's banning of China's ambassador from attending events, and has vowed that China will take "necessary responses." Analysts predicted responses may include temporarily terminating or suspending certain exchanges between the two ...
Harry Potter rides, the Jurassic World Adventure and Minion Land… Chinese social media platforms were flooded with posts and photos posted by the lucky visitors to the Universal Beijing Resort theme park during its trial opening starting September 1. This ...
As the race to fill the seat of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga as leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) heats up, bashing China, the most focal point of this election, is also gaining momentum among candidates, with ...
On various occasions, senior Chinese diplomats urged the US to put a lid on its "toxic" political atmosphere at home and stop treating China as a threat and opponent, which analysts said sends a clear signal to Washington that healthy ...
Schools all over China on Wednesday began the routine procedure of welcoming their students' return. Yet this semester is special.
China demonstrated responsibility in coping with the climate issue, and willingness to enhance cooperation with the US on this task, by inviting US climate envoy John Kerry twice to China to discuss about climate change, said analysts. But the analysts ...
China's new school year will begin after the Ministry of Education on Monday issued new requirements, including limiting the number of exams among students, as part of China's ongoing "strongest moves in decades" to ease the burden on students.
The 'Summit for Democracy' to be convened by the US serves only its goal of lulling certain countries together to challenge China, creating deeper confrontation between different ideological camps, which shows Washington's tendency to 'weaponize democracy, and insult the word ...
A Chinese net user's post suggesting "COVID city" to fend off the virus to maintain China's zero domestic infection approach, which was ignored by most Chinese and ridiculed by some who noticed the post, was reported by Asia Times on ...
This summer's main event - the Tokyo Olympic Games - has witnessed the legendary performances of Chinese athletes. At the same time, the Chinese audience is becoming more and more mature, bidding farewell to the "medal-first" mentality. But obviously, some ...
In roughly 48 hours after only seven domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases were detected, Wuhan, a city of 11 million, announced citywide nucleic acid testing, canceled offline education activities and halved tourist flows at major scenic spots. To other parts of ...
Senior US officials' "unusually frequent" visits to the Southeast Asian nations expose both Washington's anxiety and declining confidence in marshaling regional countries against China, analysts said, after US Vice President Kamala Harris, hard on the heels of Secretary of State ...
Late Wednesday night, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced that the US Deputy Secretary of State, Wendy Sherman, will visit North China's Tianjin from July 25 to 26, a visit arranged after the US proposal to exchange views on China-US relations. ...
The whole country has been brimming with warmth and joy after a Chinese father's cross-country, 24-year search for his missing son finally had a happy ending. The story of the family's reunion also pushed China's nationwide DNA database of missing ...
As the security threats of the US military's hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan spills over to neighboring countries, Chinese foreign minister has scheduled visits to three Central Asian countries upon invitation, and will discuss with Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) officials about ...
The number of members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) totals 95.148 million as of June 5, 2021, an increase of 3.234 million compared with the figure from the end of 2019, according to data released by the Organization ...
With a dazzling light show illuminating the night sky of the Chinese capital Beijing, thousands of drones soaring simultaneously into the sky in the southern city of Shenzhen to form scenes of momentous events in the history of the Communist ...
As the Communist Party of China (CPC) prepares to celebrate its centennial this week, Chinese government bodies and society alike are holding various activities, from preparing for the grand celebration to light shows in multiple cities, to activities that recall ...
Outspoken Chinese ambassador to France Lu Shaye has drawn attention recently for being the first Chinese diplomat to justify China's "self-defense" diplomacy amid foreign media's groundless speculation that making a "lovable" China would mean abandoning the so-called "wolf-warrior" diplomatic style.
Brisk crayfish sales in June – boosted by nighttime viewing of the European Football Championship matches – have greatly improved the business of crayfish farmers from Central China's Hubei Province, further pushing the province's recovery following a robust first quarter, ...
'Wolf warrior' is a form of praise in China, which symbolizes warriors who fight for their country, according to China's ambassador to France, noting that he is proud to be endowed with the title and he is determined to stand ...
Twenty years ago, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was established by the side of the Huangpu River of Shanghai in June 2001. Over the past two decades, SCO has played an important role in Eurasian and international affairs. Up to ...
A group of Taiwan people have sued Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan's regional leader, and others in her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) for politicalizing the pandemic to benefit themselves. One scholar accused them of adopting policies which "severely endanger people's lives and ...
The in-person meeting between foreign ministers of China and ASEAN countries scheduled to be held in Chongqing from Monday to Tuesday carries "special significance," as China and the bloc are set to have comprehensive discussions on jointly weathering the pandemic, ...
China has the willingness, capacity and resources to help India and other South Asian countries that are grappling with the new wave of COVID-19 cases, said the president of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC).
Leaders of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states, observer states, and dialogue partners as well as representatives of non-governmental friendship organizations, have held in-depth discussions on topics such as think tank exchanges, sister city cooperation, health, rural development and poverty ...
Chinese vaccines are better than others to Pakistani people, as they have been tested and produced with Asian genes and circumstances in mind, said the president of Pakistan's Institute of Peace and Diplomatic Studies.
By emphasizing unity of jointly weathering COVID-19 pandemic, and boosting economic recovery and cooperation on international and regional issues, the BRICS Foreign Ministers virtual meeting on Tuesday was seen by observers as sending a strong signal of bloc members' desire ...
The US Embassy and consulates in China resumed visa appointments for students earlier this month, but restrictions on those with high-tech backgrounds remain in place. Such restrictions are even extended to students whose parents work in the security, immigration and ...
China to regulate all cannabinoid substances, the country's National Narcotics Control Commission (NNCC) announced on Tuesday. This marks China the first country in the world to do so, and also shows the country's continued efforts to crack down on new ...
China will use an 'isolation strip' atop Mount Qomolangma to cordon off the north slope of the world's highest mountain, a move to prevent the spread of the coronavirus via climbers ascending from Nepal's side of the mountain, as the ...
China's consumption engine has almost completely recovered to post-pandemic levels, as shown by surging spending on items from travel products to duty-free goods during the 2021 May Day holidays, which witnessed the country's largest population movement after last year's National ...
Due to thunderstorms in central, southeast and southwest China, more than 2,600 flights were cancelled across China on Monday, the third day of the country's five-day Labor Day holiday, causing serious disruptions for air travelers at several major airports.
The US embassy and consulates in China are scheduled to open visa appointments for Chinese students on May 4, after Washington announced easing of travel restrictions for foreign students.
More than 80 percent of people surveyed in China said they are willing to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the result of a poll released on "China Prophylactic Vaccination Day," saying that the respondents' willingness to be inoculated against ...
At the invitation of US President Joe Biden, President Xi Jinping will attend and deliver an important speech at the leaders' climate summit on Thursday via video link in Beijing, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday morning.
Between China and the US signing a joint statement to address the climate crisis last week and US President Joe Biden's virtual climate summit to tout his administration's green policies this week, top US diplomat Antony Blinken fired unkind signals ...
By inviting Chinese President Xi Jinping to a climate summit, endorsing China's ambitious carbon neutrality plan and eye-watering economic growth, leaders from Germany and France, Europe's major countries, sent positive signals of saving ties between Beijing and Brussels out of ...
China is expected to be the topic that dominates the upcoming talks between US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. Observers see this meeting would be more of a test, rather than a diplomatic accomplishment for Suga, ...
By inviting US climate envoy John Kerry to Shanghai to discuss climate issues, China has demonstrated its ambition in global climate governance, and also sent a signal to the US that climate negotiations between the two are on equal terms, ...
Half a century ago, no one expected the visit of a group of American table tennis players to China would change the global landscape so dramatically. Now, with China and the US back in a period of such uncertainty in ...
Forty years after China joined the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the country has made enormous efforts to make sure 85 percent of key protected wildlife are under effective protection, the State ...
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and observers have urged Turkey to stay vigilant against a small group of politicians who try to exploit Xinjiang-related issues for selfish political purposes, after bickering between Ankara and Beijing was caused by Turkish opposition ...
During the time when a slew of hostile moves and statements from Japan has pushed its relations with Beijing to a new crossroads, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi's 90-minute phone call with his Japanese counterpart was called ...
With bilateral relations at a new crossroad, a message sent by Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi to his Japanese counterpart was a "timely reminder" for Tokyo to stop heading in the wrong direction and pull ties to ...
If WHO scientists cannot find the answer in China regarding coronavirus origins, maybe it's time for scientists to dig somewhere else and test more hypotheses to solve the mystery, Chinese scientists from the WHO-China virus tracing team suggested, after a ...
The tit-for-tat sanctions between China and the EU intensified on Tuesday as more Western countries, including the US, Canada and the UK, joined the EU in slapping sanctions on China, and China summoned the EU and UK ambassadors to China ...
Shortly after European Union foreign ministers signed off on a slate of punitive measures on Monday over alleged human rights abuses, including sanctions directed at China, China hit back with tit-for-tat countermeasures by sanctioning 10 individuals and four entities that ...
High-profile China hawk European politicians, including certain German parliamentarians, are likely to be included in China's countermeasures against EU's planned sanctions over Xinjiang, Chinese observers said ahead of the EU's signing off of punitive measures directed at China on Monday. ...
The US' attempt to build an Asian alliance to counter China has proved bleaker than expected, perhaps even fizzling out, after two of the three countries, India and South Korea, were reluctant to directly point fingers at China in their ...
While the WHO is expected to publish the much-anticipated joint report on field studies in Wuhan next week, Liang Wannian, team leader of the Chinese side of the WHO-China joint expert team, talked with the Global Times in an exclusive ...
After releasing what was deemed as the "most acrimonious" joint statement signed by the US and Japan on Tuesday, the Chinese foreign ministry lashed out at Japan for "downgrading as the US' strategic appendage."
The UK issued its biggest review of foreign and defense policy since the end of the Cold War on Tuesday, in which it vowed to cement the country's presence in the Indo-Pacific region and challenge China where necessary. Yet the ...
China is eyeing a progressive, flexible and differentiated path to raising the retirement age, a senior expert from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS) has revealed. Demographers believe that raising the retirement age is partly intended to ...
Chinese lawmakers voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to adopt a decision on improving the electoral system of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) at the closure of the fourth session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC), the country's top ...
After he stepped down from office, Donald Trump might have faded away from Chinese people's minds. But instead, a statue of Donald Trump as Buddha is trending on an online shopping platform, with the slogan “make your company great again!”
Senior US officials have filled their mid-March calendars with a slew of visits and discussions with their Asian allies, including the US defense secretary's visit to India, and President Joe Biden's virtual meeting with Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) leaders. The ...
Thanks to a nano-carrier research breakthrough, Chinese scientists, including top epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan, have embarked on developing an advanced type of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine, which can be preserved for half a year under the condition of two to eight degrees ...
China should completely ban smoking in indoor public places and enact a national-level smoke-free law to protect the health of non-smokers, a Chinese lawmaker said in a proposal brought to the two sessions, stressing a nationwide law on smoking bans ...
To tackle China's low rate of organ donation, a lawmaker suggested including organ donation rate in the criteria for determining a civilized city, meaning a city's organ donation rate must surpass the previous year's national average donation rate to meet ...
To tackle China's low rate of organ donation, a lawmaker suggested including organ donation into the criteria for a civilized city, and that a city's organ donation rate must surpass last year's national average donation rate to meet the standard. ...
More African countries are starting to roll out COVID-19 vaccination programs with the arrival of China-donated vaccines. Observers said that China has played a crucial role in addressing the uneven global vaccination situation, and with more Chinese vaccines making progress, ...
By publishing an opinion piece that's lacking in evidence and laden with fallacies co-authored by former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, the Worst Secretary of State Ever, who simply wants to keep his political profile after stepping down, the ...
As the numbers of COVID-19 cases across the globe have dropped for a fifth consecutive week in 2021, Chinese scientists interpreted the encouraging signs, including the worst-hit UK rolling out lockdown lift plans, as a possible "tapering-off" of the pandemic ...
From Golden Age partner to a vanguard that attacks China on various fronts, the US factor is the biggest influence behind the freezing China-UK ties, said Chinese observers. They pointed out that London is striving to stand up in the ...
As the situation intensifies in Myanmar, which is bracing for the largest anti-coup protest yet after bloody clashes, Chinese observers urged outside countries, such as the US, to stop “pouring oil on the fire,” and encouraged ASEAN to play a ...
Robust consumption during the Year of the Ox Spring Festival holidays, with crowded cinemas and scenic sites seen across the country amid a stay-put policy introduced to ward off a possible winter spike of COVID-19, again validated strong consumer confidence ...
The phone call between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden on Chinese New Year's Eve serves as a tone-setter for future bilateral relations in short term and shows that the two sides are willing to push bilateral ...
The 2020 Spring Festival did not go as Wuhan people had expected. On Chinese New Year's eve last year, the 11-million-population city was put into a lockdown unparalleled in modern society that lasted for 76 days. A year on, the ...
While many central and western European countries, who put all faith in Western-produced COVID-19 vaccines, continue to scramble for scarce doses, those left behind have urged "it is time to trust Chinese vaccines." As Turkey, Hungary, Bosnia and Serbia keep ...
China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) handed over a patch of COVID-19 vaccines to Pakistan army on Sunday, which marks the first foreign army to receive vaccines provided by Chinese army.
Promising interim data released by China's COVID-19 developer Sinovac regarding its vaccines on elderly people will push forward China's efforts to streamline its vaccine rollout for the seniors and consolidate the country's plan to establish herd immunity. Yet scientists urge ...
The impressive 92 percent protection rate of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine offers an opportunity for China and Russia, the two shepherds of global COVID-19 vaccine developers, to join hands on world vaccine distribution, help ease the white-hot global vaccine scuffle, ...
The US once again waved its stick of sanctions on Myanmar, a Southeast Asian country neighboring India and China, with "democracy and freedom" as its silver bullet, following Myanmar army's detention of Myanmar leaders including Aung San Suu Kyi and ...
India, which has reported the second highest number of COVID-19 cases worldwide, could take more than 10 years to finish its nationwide vaccination at the current rate, neztizens said, in response to the Indian prime minister's boast that the country ...
Amid a white-hot global vaccine battle, where a row caused by the EU and the UK, and US pharmaceuticals over the delayed delivery continues to flare, another Chinese vaccine, developed by CanSino Biologics, which guarantees dual protection after only one ...
A virtual meeting between the top epidemiologists of China and the US, Zhong Nanshan and Anthony Fauci, aims to kick off official cooperation on fighting the pandemic, a move hailed by experts as a warming sign amid frozen ties.
When residents in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province, look back to the first one or two weeks after the city entered an unprecedented lockdown on January 23, 2020, some remember those days as a struggle with a feeling of helplessness ...
A year ago, Wuhan, where the coronavirus was first reported in China, made a decision that has little parallel in modern society: to lock down the city of 11 million. During the 76-day lockdown, the city struggled to save lives ...
A year on, when looking back at the decision to seal off Wuhan, many people in Wuhan and across China feel "grateful" for the government's decisive measures, which effectively and quickly stunted viral spreading. They believe it was incontrovertibly the ...
A year ago, Wuhan, where the coronavirus was first reported in China, made a decision that has little parallel in modern society: to lock down the city of 11 million. During the 76-day lockdown, the city struggled to save lives ...
On the first day when Joe Biden sits behind the Resolute desk, what would be waiting for the 46th president of the US would probably be tons of documents and classified files describing how huge the coronavirus disaster this country ...
Officials tied a man to a tree during a COVID-19 lockdown; villagers got slapped when playing mahjong when coronavirus was still rife … incidents that occurred in Chinese rural areas' epidemic prevention efforts have stirred a firestorm of online criticism, ...
Indian media started hyping China's construction of a village in a "disputed area," saying the construction was built within Indian territory, which New Delhi is concerned about. But a Chinese expert said the move stirs anti-China sentiment, as the construction ...
As China again faces sporadic COVID-19 outbreaks, the country has compiled a book that aims to provide guidelines for hospitals in handling public health emergencies, borrowing from the COVID-19 response experience of a Wuhan hospital.
The declassification of the Trump administration's strategy in the Indo-Pacific region shows it intends to pressure Joe Biden to continue its hawkish policy toward China, said Chinese observers, urging the upcoming US government, when dealing with issues in the region, ...
Global Times learned from sources that India has returned the Chinese soldiers who got lost along China-India border on January 8 morning and were held by the Indian military.
China confirmed a lost Chinese soldier in the border areas was found by India and called for an immediate return of the soldier, according to China's frontier forces on Saturday.
The violent scene in WashingtonDC won't overturn the result of the US presidential election or disrupt the US government's transition of power, as President Donald Trump may have wished, but would hasten his accountability after Joe Biden takes office, said ...
China's latest national epidemiological serum survey, which showed the positive rate of coronavirus antibodies in Wuhan was 4.43 percent, has become a point of attack by the foreign media against the Chinese government for underreporting during the initial stages of ...
China and the European Union (EU) are pushing for the inking of the sweeping Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI), despite a rising number of hurdles during the negotiation and the increasing pressure from third parties, such as the US, said ...
A total of 24,112 organs have been donated by Chinese citizens after their deaths from January 2015 to December 2019, and the per-million population of organ donations have climbed from 2.01 in 2015 to 4.16 in 2019, according to a ...
It is less than a month to go for US President Donald Trump, yet he and his administration continue to ratchet up confrontations with China, with the latest targeting companies with possible military connections and hitting Chinese officials with new ...
A "new variant" of coronavirus detected in the UK won't have a major impact on the country's massive vaccination program, predicted a Chinese epidemiologist, noting that the case should serve as a reminder for countries to maintain surveillance of and ...
There is a series of evidence on coronavirus being found in Italy before December 2019, including the latest regarding a 4-year-old boy found to have contracted the virus in November 2019, which some experts believe indicates that a COVID-19 outbreak ...
Although US president-elect Joe Biden hasn't officially announced former Mayor Pete Buttigieg as new ambassador to China, media reports have been trending on Chinese social media, with part of the discussion centering on his political background, and the other on ...
Mount Qomolangma, commonly known in the West as Mount Everest, has a new official height, with top leaders from China and Nepal, the two countries the world's highest peak straddles, jointly announcing the historic result: 8,848.86 meters at the top ...
As global vaccine providers speed up trials and various countries scramble to set up distribution, December has become a flashpoint for the global vaccine race as COVID-19 vaccine candidates approach the end of late-stage testing.
The Southwest Chinese city of Chengdu was on high alert after a local COVID-19 case was found on Sunday. The local government sealed off the hospital where the patient received treatment, conducted an overall epidemiological survey, and traced and quarantined ...
Experts from the two sides of Taiwan Straits say reunification between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan will not be realized without pressure, and even peaceful reunification won't be realized without military pressure.
China will face a big test in epidemic prevention, as authorities warned of sporadic outbreaks with the approach of Spring Festival, during which domestic air travel will be close to the same level as the period before the epidemic.
No matter how successfully China has contained the spread of the coronavirus with all-out efforts and how the country has passed on its experiences of handling the pandemic to the world in a timely manner, some Western media has not ...
Few people were out on the streets for the cold and rainy weather in Wuhan on Saturday, but there was hustle and bustle in one venue.
It has been a year since Freddi Gaoseb, Commercial Counselor of the Embassy of Namibia in China, first came to Wuhan, capital of Central China's Hubei Province. The moment he set his foot in the city, he couldn't hold back ...
As the world is struck by the COVID-19 pandemic, industries have been suspended around the world, leaving many jobless. The deadly virus has hampered the BRI to an extent, but the initiative has not only been functioning well amid the ...
The award ceremony of the Second Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) Short Video Competition was held in Wuhan in Central China's Hubei Province, aiming to share the stories of builders and beneficiaries from countries along the BRI, who help to ...
On the heels of signing the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the world's biggest free trade agreement, China is ushering in its busiest multilateral diplomatic season this year as its leading role is once again highlighted in a slew of ...
The signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the world's largest free trade agreement (FTA), will give strong momentum to the development of the world's COVID-19-battered economy and cement regional cooperation within East Asia, which has emerged strongest ...
Sporadic COVID-19 flare-ups in Chinese cities will not lead to a higher possibility of larger-scale outbreaks as winter approaches, said Chinese epidemiologists, after confirmed cases emerged in two Chinese cities in succession. However, experts urged countries where coronavirus is rife ...
Now that Democratic nominee Joe Biden has been declared president-elect, some experts predicted Donald Trump faces a number of struggles and perhaps 'political reckoning' depending on how he handles the transfer of power.
For some Chinese people, US president-elect Joe Biden maybe a new face and an unfamiliar name they have taken notice of only because of his hard-fought campaign to win the presidency over outgoing President Donald Trump. But many more have ...
One of China's vaccine developers announced on Saturday that it has launched the Phase III clinical trial for its COVID-19 vaccine in Mexico and has successfully vaccinated the first group of subjects.
The incumbent US President Donald Trump continued to lose ground in the presidential race as his opponent Joe Biden established leads in major swing states. However, the Trump campaign is making its last-ditch efforts to challenge the results by going ...
