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 ...
The Communist Party of China (CPC) vowed to grasp new opportunities as the country is in a major strategic development period, although both opportunities and challenges the country faces have changed, reads the communique of the fifth plenary session of ...
A new round of lockdowns in Europe and parts of the US have dashed hopes in the West of an early recovery this year, Chinese observers said. But they believe China, the country that emerged from the pandemic the strongest, ...
In the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, health institutes in China are committed to refining their health systems, such as enhancing surveillance and warning systems of contagious disease, and improving the quality of medical staff, which will prepare China's health ...
Mounting evidence and studies point to imported cold-chain products as the source of COVID-19 flare-ups in the Chinese cities of Beijing and Qingdao, a finding that one Chinese virologist said may help solve the puzzle of the coronavirus origin.
Public willingness to take flu vaccines will be dented by deaths and adverse reactions reported in countries such as South Korea and Singapore, said experts, and this could be a heavy blow to the world's fight against COVID-19, especially when ...
Coming at a sensitive time with the US Presidential election just a week away and while India is still entangled in border tensions with China, Chinese observers said Tuesday's third 2+2 ministerial dialogue between New Delhi and Washington is more ...
China and the Vatican decided on Thursday to extend a provisional agreement on bishops appointment by two years, Chinese Foreign Ministry announced Thursday, marking a big step toward what insiders said greater and deeper future ties between the two sides. ...
The renewal of a provisional bishop agreement between China and the Vatican not only reflects strong and healthy momentum between the two countries in bishop appointment, but also carries special importance of the Holy See's goodwill to move forward relations ...
China's domestically developed BeiDou Navigation Satellite System has released platform 2.0, which supports 1.2-meter accuracy and lane level positioning, and experts said that these specifications have endorsed the system's ability to compete in the same ring as GPS.
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced it has detected and isolated living coronavirus in a positive sample from the outer packaging of imported frozen cod, progress that virologists said could push forward research into the virus' origin, ...
US President Donald Trump's positive test result for ”the SARS-CoV-2 virus” will possibly favor him if he recovers before the election, as it makes him the sole focus of the US political circle as the election date looms only one ...
Hong Kong murder suspect Chan Tong-kai ̶ whose case lead to the proposed extradition bill that sparked months of social unrest in Hong Kong last year ̶ has notified his lawyer on the island of Taiwan to ...
Chinese observers and netizens believe mass COVID-19 infections in the Indian army, including its border troops, may sway the border situation, as more than 10,000 of its border troops have caught the virus.
The renewal of an agreement between China and the Vatican on the appointment of bishops will contribute to the development of Chinese Catholic churches, and signal to the world that China's Catholic churches could continue healthy development under the agreement, ...
Tibetan people, officials and experts have pointed out the many flaws in accusations of a "mass labor program in Tibet" fabricated by the notorious Adrian Zenz, a self-proclaimed Tibet and Xinjiang researcher, and Western media. These include grafting Tibetan government ...
In the face of certain countries' technology crackdowns on China, the Ministry of Education (MOE) has rolled out a talent cultivation campaign, which focuses on key technologies as well as plans to nurture urgently needed talent in “unusual ways,” in ...
Six hundred years on, the Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, does not only have cultural meaning for Chinese people, who believed they live in a world of unprecedented turmoil.
The US is urged to comply with multilateralism, and to proceed with China-US relations in the right way; any unilateral move to crack down on other countries in order to defend its monopoly position is doomed to fail in a ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping's scheduled video conference with the top leaders of Germany and the EU, after bilateral ties were warmed up by senior Chinese diplomats' visits to Europe weeks ago, is likely to be the “tone-setter” for a deeper ...
Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, China, a major country that first emerged from it, has now claimed victory over what Chinese President Xi Jinping called “an extraordinary and historic test,” and the hard-fought triumph was hailed by observers as injecting ...
President Xi Jinping on Tuesday morning presented a national medal and honorary titles to four people for their outstanding contribution to fighting the COVID-19 epidemic.
Schools reopen; domestic travel reaches pre-pandemic level; the government sums up experience in the virus fight and rewards those who fought the virus…emerging signs suggest that COVID-19 is ending in China, spawning a question of who was behind the country's ...
Adding fuel to the fire of Hong Kong's coronavirus flare-up, opposition groups organized illegal gatherings in Kowloon on Sunday morning, which were held under the guise of protesting postponed Legislative Council (LegCo) elections and the national security law.
China's rewarding of heroes who made significant contributions to the country's hard-fought war against COVID-19 on Tuesday signals a new phase in the victory of Beijing's battle against the virus, and is also a recognition of every Chinese person's efforts ...
The Australian parliament is set to probe alleged foreign interference at public universities, Alan Tudge told Sky News on Monday. The move comes after Canberra announced last week that it would give the federal government powers to scrap any deal ...
The Hong Kong-America Center, a US-backed pro-secessionist organization founded in 1994, has announced its official closure, with six university presidents in Hong Kong withdrawing from the center's board of directors. The center has been frequently accused of political infiltration under ...
Under the growing threat of COVID-19 pandemic in the Himalaya region, Chinese experts say it's important for countries, such as Nepal and India, to enhance cooperation to fight the coronavirus, boost trade cooperation and people-to-people exchange, which will benefit the ...
In response to Sweden's concerns over “false positive COVID-19 test kits,” the Chinese company in question, BGI Genomics, said on Wednesday that the “high positive rate” was due to the amount of virus inside asymptomatic patients, and different countries and ...
Ask the lovebirds in Wuhan, a city that has resurrected itself from the blow of COVID-19, what the first post-pandemic Qixi, or Chinese Valentine's Day, means to them, and their answer is simple: cherishing your loved ones and the normal ...
As a developing country with insufficient medical resources, India's incapacity in dealing with COVID-19 has been shown by its skyrocketing daily infection numbers, observers said, after the country set a fresh record for the number of infections registered in a ...
Hong Kong is set to launch free citywide testing for COVID-19 on September 1, with the whole testing process likely to finish within two weeks, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced on Friday.
It's not only a massive pool party. Wuhan, the city where COVID-19 was first reported and the one hit hardest by the virus, is now welcoming an influx of tourists, and its economy is reviving, which local residents believed should ...
Hong Kong secessionists fleeing to the UK and promoting the “parliament in exile” severely breach and blatantly defy Article 29 of the national security law for Hong Kong, warned legal experts, who said that those people, along with UK organizations ...
Australian universities are losing their attraction to Chinese students as many of them found their schooling has been disrupted in the country that has been ravaged by the COVID-19. They have been shocked by the Canberra's growing anti-China sentiment, and ...
Unaffected by the pouring rain in Beijing and strife between China and the US, famous US burger brand Shake Shack welcomed burger lovers, some of whom were standing in line for hours, on its opening day in the capital.
Biological product companies told the Global Times on Thursday that their vaccines had not even entered the market, in response to a query about some online advertisements peddling "COVID-19 vaccines" produced by them.
Unaffected by the pouring rain in Beijing and strife between China and the US, famous US burger brand Shake Shack welcomed burger lovers, some of whom were standing in line for hours, on its opening day in the capital.
A 68-year-old woman in Jingzhou, Central China's Hubei Province, tested positive for COVID-19, after she recovered and was discharged from a local hospital as early as February.
US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's naming of Senator Kamala Harris as running mate is seen by Chinese observers as a move to use the first black female vice presidential nominee's background to help him topple President Donald Trump. But ...
The number of tourists has surged in China as the COVID-19 contagion comes under control, but as the threat and fear of the viral infection lingers, how will summer travel this year be any different from previous years?
Hong Kong's popular lyricist Albert Leung is in hot water after he was found cheering up a Hong Kong secessionist on a social website, a move that observers and his fans in the Chinese mainland said showed his narrow-minded mentality ...
The meeting between the US ambassador to China and Shanghai mayor, despite deteriorating bilateral relations, has sparked speculation of soothing China-US ties.
A demand from US Republican lawmakers that six top US universities disclose their sources of funding from China is just another move to hype China's influence and shows the Republicans are heading toward a more irrational way to antagonize China ...
The University of New South Wales (UNSW) apologized to Chinese students after an article denouncing the "human rights issue" in Hong Kong was published on its official website last week, saying the article only represented the author's personal opinion, but ...
Negotiations between China and the Vatican on the renewal of the agreement on bishop appointments is proof that the framework has worked well for the past two years, which will help elevate the bilateral relations to the next level, observers ...
