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BRI embodies a different modernity norm

With the promotion of the BRI, China brings the project as well as modernity to more developing countries. Although the initiative borrows certain valuable experiences from the West, most of it still comes from Chinese civilization.
Source: Global Times | 2019/12/25 19:56:10

Global resources key to Chinese firms

A total of 129 Chinese companies, including 10 from Taiwan, were ranked among Fortune magazine's list of the world's top 500 firms this year, surpassing the number of US companies.
Source: Global Times | 2019/12/23 18:12:12

Race casts shadow on entertaining show

While I was watching Capri's stunts, my churning mind was calming down. I decided to not alert my niece about the unfairness of society. She will certainly have to face it in the future. But I am also certain that she is growing up in a whole new world.
Source: Global Times | 2019/12/19 18:13:40

How will Europe respond to China's rise?

Asia is no less challenged by globalization than Europe. The development of Asia is a process of constantly breaking the rules and orders designed by colonists. Meanwhile, it also faces the challenge of how to establish new rule and orders. Breaking and establishing the rules are inseparably interconnected while the shaping of new rules means Asia is making more and more contributions to global peace and development.
Source: Global Times | 2019/12/18 20:13:41

How China can gain from trade headwinds

China and the US signed a phase one agreement related to the trade war on Friday. It has been widely discussed who the winner is. According to the results of my research, I believe that China has not lost, nor has the US won.
Source: Global Times | 2019/12/16 19:03:39

Besides water, Tibet can give India green lessons

Geographical environment and transition of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is significant to South Asia, East Asia, and even our planet as well as for humanity's survival. Chinese people are aware of what responsibility they shoulder.
Source: Global Times | 2019/12/11 20:58:40

Russia, China need strategic reassurance

China cannot guide Russia, nor does it need to. To China, Russia has many aspects to learn from, but Russia should also open its arms to its neighbor more widely.
Source: Global Times | 2019/12/9 21:23:40

Buddha's birthplace hints at Asian century

While I was heading toward the airport and villages, fields, and trees passed by, I kept thinking: Does it mean China and India will shake hands at the birthplace of Buddhism if the two ancient civilizations are linked via Nepal?
Source: Global Times | 2019/11/27 18:33:42

China not in a position to lead the world

China is trying to present some Chinese-style experiences to the rest of the world. It has not forced other countries by any means. That being said, there is no need to encourage China to become the new international leader. It is not what China wants. If possible, other countries are welcome to study more about China's development and learn from some of China's effective governance.
Source: Global Times | 2019/11/25 21:58:41

Nixon and a changing NY Chinese food scene

Then we tried the notorious Chinese spirit, baijiu, chatted about how tomatoes were first brought to China and how a certain Chinese dish is similar to a Portuguese one. There might be something more important to talk about. But no one bothered. Intoxicated, my eyes caught a line in the menu: “This month, as we renew and recreate that menu, if only to ask the same question: 'can Peking duck end a war?'” What war? I must be drunk.
Source: Global Times | 2019/11/21 19:58:41

Latin American woes stem from globalization

For developing countries, deindustrialization is also a source of instability. This has been a problem of unbalanced development brought about by globalization.
Source: Global Times | 2019/11/20 20:18:40

'Gn' shows how power structures shape new intl governance mechanism

For China, the best way is to pursue win-win results and cooperation, not to become enemy to any forces, and to make efforts within its capabilities.
Source: Global Times | 2019/11/11 21:48:40

Elitism, aristocracy and rising income gap

Tian may have almost unintentionally tapped into the psyche of the new ruling class in China. The essence of aristocracy, above all, is its function as a fortification of the social pyramid. And the admiration of aristocracy among some nouveau riche in China may have revealed a still subconscious desire to strengthen their positions at the top. It is a passcode to a lethargic society be it delivered in a silver cup or not.
Source: Global Times | 2019/11/7 19:13:40

Rejecting RCEP won't make India a winner

Only when India needs the world and the world needs India, can this South Asian country become a veritable power. I would like to ask a question to those who claim India's victory: Will the manufacturing gap between China and India narrow or widen in terms of technology and scale in the next 10 or 20 years?
Source: Global Times | 2019/11/6 16:53:41

Migrants death shows lack of understanding

All I want to say is that the world is more complicated than we often assume, and things can look totally different on the surface and beneath it. The only way to see it more clearly is to see it as it is rather than from the tainted glasses of pre-formed perceptions.
Source: Global Times | 2019/10/31 18:58:40

China's growth inseparable from its system

If India intends to learn from China's experience, then it has to reform its agricultural governance system, make it more efficient, with stronger organizational functions and more input, which is precisely the most difficult thing to achieve.
Source: Global Times | 2019/10/30 19:28:40

Hong Kong should be wary of US interference

The third decade of the 21st century is about to begin. The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area should be the fourth opportunity for Hong Kong. If this is true, Hong Kong will surely continue to occupy an important international position in the future.
Source: Global Times | 2019/10/28 18:18:40

What affects everlasting peace in East Asia?

Obviously, what lacks in East Asia is a new system of cooperation, or at least something like the economic or trade cooperation mechanism of the European Community in the bloc's early years. This is the real dilemma East Asia is in.
Source: Global Times | 2019/10/23 20:13:41