China has made enormous progress on all social and economic indicators. The CPC represents the most vital part of Chinese society. Its mission is to lead Chinese society to the future.

New Zealand should set an example to other Western countries to maintain a non-aligned foreign policy.

China rightfully would want to have a bigger say in shaping the international system to be one that is fairer and more just.

As the world grapples with unilateralism-induced crises that have threatened global peace, China continues to be a shining example on the international stage, injecting stable, developmental and cooperative momentum. Over the last decade, China, under the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), has achieved great success in record time, hitherto unseen in world history, including lifting nearly 100 million people out of absolute poverty, the unreserved promotion of multilateralism, and the adoption of a win-win development strategy among countries. In this series, the Global Times will interview diplomats from various countries to get their views on China's development and what it means for the world as a whole. ​

I'm optimistic about China-EU cooperation in the sense that I still believe in both sides, there are enough people interested in finding bright spots and positive topics on the picture of bilateral ties: president of the EU Chamber of Commerce

AUKUS does set a precedent: If Australia can acquire nuclear-powered submarines, why shouldn't other countries?

Germany and China cannot decouple from each other without causing economic damage on both sides, and there is no reason for this.

The US stealing Syrian national treasure is a long-time crime. The crime is stealing, and the thief is “the leader of the free world.”

The Arab-China relations are becoming institutionalized and cemented through strategic long-term deals in critical sectors such as energy and telecommunications. There is no question that the prospects of the Arab-China relations are enormous and brilliant.

Dependence first to the UK and now to the US, has meant that we've forfeited a great deal of Australia's sovereignty to imperial powers.

The US is willing to fight to the last drop of Ukrainian blood and is ready to fight to the last European, to the last European economy, to the last European government.

The CPC has been able to maintain its role as a source of development and stability because it constantly learns and maintains high internal competition while maintaining solidarity in the face of external forces.

Editor's Note: Political infighting in the US is becoming tenser and tenser ahead of the midterm elections, with former president Donald Trump's home being raided by the FBI. How will this political infighting evolve? With US-style democracy showing its cracks, how will it affect the US global leadership and US foreign policy, especially that regarding the Taiwan question? Global Times (GT) reporter Wang Wenwen talked to Zheng Yongnian (Zheng), professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and president of the Institute for International Affairs, Qianhai, over these issues.

What aspects in China are attractive to foreign entrepreneurs? What's the difference between the so-called freedom in Western media reports and that from expats' actual experience in China?

What is happening in Ukraine is a solid warning to middle and small powers against interference and involvement in great powers conflict as a junior partner of one of them.

White supremacy is what's driving much of US policy.

China's power in the world, economically and politically, is now a fact that is not going to change. The British establishment will have to come to terms with that and learn to live with that.

The shift in Washington is one born out of desperation rather than adventurism. The US is out of time.

In China, meritocracy contributes to China's achievements as the best and the brightest always aspire to government service.

Why could China achieve its first centenary goal? What will a great modern socialist country look like? Alexey Maslov (Maslov), Director of the Institute of Asian and African Studies of Moscow State University, shared his opinions on these issues with Global Times (GT) reporter Xia Wenxin.

China is a mirror in which people can see China is a living example that a state can serve the public interests, while the US is a living example that acts only on behalf of the ruling power elites: German sociologist

Editor's Note: On the special occasion of Pakistan celebrating its 75th Independence Day, the Global Times (GT) reporters Liu Caiyu and Xing Xiaojing did a written interview with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif （Sharif）on a broad range of topics, including China-Pakistan relations, hot-debated issues relating to China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and the upcoming 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

Over the last decade, China has shown, once again, its ability to adjust to changing circumstances.

Ordinary people want peace not war. Their leaders should try to reflect that preference.

Then there are economic projects that are extremely important for this region. They can only happen if there is stability in Afghanistan. We appreciate China's engagement with Afghanistan.

It's very important to understand the nature of China. The way the CPC organizes itself is crucial to maintaining its leadership of the country in a good way.

The progress on air pollution in China, compared internationally, is absolutely incredible.

All the contacts between youth organizations in our countries show that relations between Russia and China will only grow stronger and stronger.

Editor's Note: During the past decade, the world has increasingly witnessed a trend of "the East is rising, and the West is declining" in the spheres of economy, security and discourse power. Western countries, particularly the US, plagued by internal woes, have sought the old path of passing the buck and instigating turmoil elsewhere to ease their own pressure. China, representative of the emerging countries, is proposing new solutions to global problems. By advocating win-win development, facilitating consultation and reconciliation and proposing a balanced and effective security mechanism, China is striving to build a community with a shared future for mankind.

The Chinese people believed in the correctness of their leadership strategy. The country and the people have strengthened each other and are making the revival of the Chinese nation inevitable.

What should China do if Pelosi really visits Taiwan? On the Taiwan question, the US has no bottom line. There will be a bottom line, but not through paperwork or lip service, but fight.

For a long time, I've thought it would be good to encourage people in the same profession from China and Australia to have forums where they can meet and discuss, because I think when you bring people together who do similar things, even if they're from two different cultures, they can cooperate and begin to understand each other's country, and then they make friends.

At least after financial crisis of 2007-08, China's biggest difference has been the willingness to be involved in building a global democracy. It is an immense advance. It's a shining light for poor people around the world.

I don't think that China is losing Europe or Europe is losing China. I think it's still a struggle because the US doesn't hide that it wants Europe on its side against China. So, there is no hidden agenda; they are being very frank. This question has not been answered yet. And I hope reason prevails in the end.

For the Middle East where the situation is chaotic and volatile, we need the engagement of world powers, mainly China, to help recover stability, peace and security.

In the Chinese political DNA, accommodative consultation precedes the Western norm of "majority rule" - where majority takes all.

China becomes a positive force in the world through collaboration, cooperation, with the biggest countries in the world.

Over the past decade, China's great change is the scientific and urban development. Regarding technological issues, China has promoted an innovation culture.

Under-estimating the needs of the people of the Pacific no longer works. Australia is paying a heavy price for its laxity in dealing with the Pacific Islands.

I am not even 100 percent sure that some Western leaders care really about the livelihoods of Uygurs, just like they don't really care about those of Ukrainians.

Japanese people, especially youth, are unaware of the basic facts in history that Japan was the aggressor in WWII. This is causing problems for Japan to promote mutual understanding and friendship with its neighboring nations.

While US seeks absolute domination, China emphasizes peaceful cooperation and win-win strategy.

The US will continue to support the Taiwan island in ways that will irritate China, and is taking down a path where the common ground upon which the one-China policy was established and maintained is slowly being lost.

The US is fundamentally reluctant to see the reunification of the two sides of the Taiwan Straits.

It's not easy to describe the development of China over the past 10 years, and if I could only use one term to describe it, I would choose the term "great change."

It seems that the Yoon administration is still caught in the pattern of the US-designed “Asian war of attrition,” which makes people feel quite anxious.

As the "one country, two systems" enters the remaining 25-year period, what is the most urgent task for Hong Kong?

When the UK acts and expresses today the interference in China's internal affairs, it does so not on its own behalf, but on behalf of the American empire as the tail of the American dog, says six-term British parliamentarian

The debt trap narrative is a deliberately false narrative that has no substance. Noticeably, the debt trap narrative was not originally created by an economist, but some American “researchers” with background in security matters.

The opening of China to the world and the increasing role China is taking up in multilateral organizations should be better welcomed.

The West's lecturing approach toward HK connects back to the historical period of HK under British rule. People who make instructing comments have difficulty coming to terms with the reality that HK is now completely confirmed as part of China.

Colin Patrick Mackerras, an Australian sinologist and Emeritus Professor at Griffith University, shared with the Global Times how he views China's development and changes over the past decades, especially the past 10 years.

Japan's advocacy of Asian NATO or global NATO, and the realization of it, is nothing more than going against the post-Cold War era. Japan should aim for value diplomacy with neighbors.

Two things delighted me in the past decade: when Xi called upon people to “be mindful of the legacy & not to forget the mission” & marvelous idea of a community with a common destiny for mankind.

China has demonstrated that it is absolutely possible to create its own independent digital, technological and media ecosystems, which are not just on par but often superior to their Western counterparts.

Editor's Note: People in Western countries believe the COVID-19 pandemic is over, including in the UK, despite the fact that there are 2 million people in that country living with long COVID. Among them is Ravi Veriah Jacques (Veriah Jacques). The 23-year-old young man, who is also the son of well-known British scholar Martin Jacques, has been affected by long COVID for 15 months. Prior to falling ill, he had just graduated from Stanford University and was halfway through a master's degree at Tsinghua University as a Schwarzman Scholar. He has had to spend almost 16 hours a day in bed, and in his own words, the illness feels like “being a prisoner in his own body.” In her I-Talk show, Global Times (GT) reporter Wang Wenwen talked to Veriah Jacques about the catastrophic impact long COVID has had on his life, as well as how he thinks the British government has handled the pandemic. Due to his health conditions, the interview had to be taken in two separate parts.

Editor's Note: Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi's visit to the South Pacific countries is still undergoing. The trip has triggered concerns from the West, especially Australia and the US. Since the signing of a security pact between China and the Solomon Islands in April, the West has been very sensitive to China's moves in the region. They have intensively hyped that China is competing for influence in the Pacific. What are the intentions behind the smear campaign against China? Is the Albanese administration's attitude toward cooperation between China and South Pacific countries rational? Global Times (GT) reporter Lu Yuanzhi talked to Robert Barwick (Barwick), research director for the Australian Citizen Party, over these issues as well as future China-Australia relations.

I worked in a number of Western countries, some of which were former colonial powers. In my interactions with their leaders and officials on cooperation with Africa, it was unfortunate that I sensed an underlying sentiment from time to time that smacked of paternalism and condescension. An approach that still reflected a “colonial” attitude that “we know what is best for Africa”!

Australia does not formulate a foreign policy independent of the United States, and because of the immaturity of the LNP and its lack of vision, Canberra has failed to balance its relationship between the US and China, former Australian diplomatic and political commentator Bruce Haigh has told the Global Times. He believes the relationship with China will become better when proper and professional diplomacy is employed.

In view of the differences in political systems and ideologies between China and Australia, as well as the fact that Australia is a staunch ally of the US and that it has always closely followed the US' lead in history, Australia will ultimately lean to the US at critical moments. We must pay close attention to any changes in Australia's policy toward China and avoid misjudgment.

The mass shooting in Buffalo of New York State last Saturday that killed 10 people has triggered discussion of white supremacy prevailing in US society. Why are some young, white men addicted to the "great replacement" theory? Is gun violence becoming more and more serious in the US given the current political and social atmosphere?

Historically, when the US was doing well at home, its diplomacy tended to be rational. When there were a lot of domestic problems, it would divert its conflicts to international relations. The present China-US relationship is such a victim.

I think stabilization is very possible. That's probably the most likely scenario, that it will stabilize but without major improvement. But there are also possible scenarios of a spiral downward.

In times of a West deteriorating with xenophobic, anti-science and Nazi-fascist discourses, a New Silk Road can symbolize the beginning of a luminous reaction to all this darkness that is gaining ground in several Western countries.

I would say going forward, anything that can be done to empower the business community in the US and the business community in China to work together and to create opportunities will benefit the people on both sides. But it's going to be hard because right now, the tone in the media and in Washington is not to encourage that. It's discouraging.

Editor's Note: For the Chinese people, the past decade was epic and inspirational. The country, under the leadership of President Xi Jinping, has made great endeavors in boosting its economy, deepening reforms, improving the rights of its people and acting as a responsible power globally. The Chinese leader has been advocating a new security concept featuring mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality and coordination. Global Times (GT) reporter Li Aixin talked to Alfred de Zayas (De Zayas), professor of international law at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and former UN independent expert, on his understanding of the world order, as well as the roles China and the US play in it. This is the third interview of the series.

To avert the outbreak of war, the US must be continually reminded that the wayward province of Taiwan is not an “unsinkable American aircraft carrier,” a proxy battlefield, or an independent sovereign nation.

China's engagement in multilateral organizations, including with nations and various other organs of UN, aims to promote common development, common prosperity, and to some extent common security, so as to build economic communities or security communities in the regions, whereas the United States is trying to sustain its global hegemony.

Rather than recognizing the way the world has changed, some analysts appear to have fixated on the decades immediately after WW2 and concluded that this represents some immutable international order. It's a deeply flawed analysis.

"How is not selling Kerrygold butter to Russia going to save any Ukrainian lives? How is buying filthy fracked US gas going to stop the war?" Clare Daly, an Irish politician and a member of the European Parliament, asked earlier this month. She said, "NATO has never brought peace anywhere in the world," and sanctions against Russia will "devastate the European economy."

China's approach to human rights prioritizes sovereignty and the right to development, and these principles have been applied to the implementation of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

With the Ukraine crisis continuing, the West has spared no effort to persuade New Delhi to "stand with the West" to condemn Moscow. Is this another embodiment of the West's "colonial mentality" and "colonial structures and institutions"?

NATO is not expanding into Asia, because in the NATO treaty there is a geographic definition. The geographic definition excludes Asia.

How will the ongoing Ukraine crisis end? What should Europe learn from it? Is it possible for China and the US to join hands to resolve the crisis?

Editors' Note: More and more secrets about US-funded biolabs in Ukraine have come to light amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Apart from Ukraine, the US has funded laboratories in many other post-Soviet states. What are these biolabs studying? Is it possible that the US is creating genetic weapons that target specific people? Russian biotechnologist Ilya Dukhovlinov (Dukhovlinov) talked about these issues with Global Times (GT) reporter Xia Wenxin in an email interview.

Editor's Note: Last month, Chinese internet security company 360 released reports on US National Security Agency (NSA)'s cyberattacks around the world, showing that US' cyberattack activities have become common and the potential threat has grown. Global Times (GT) reporter Zhao Siwei interviewed Bian Liang (Bian), head of the 360 Helios Team. Bian said once these threats are detonated, the harm will occur beyond the virtual world. This will trigger major security incidents in the real world. All departments must realize the urgency of cyber security and take immediate measures to prevent potential threats.

The US needs to open up to provide the documentation and open up to what's really being done in those labs.

"We can regard the Russia-Ukraine conflict as a 'preview' of the US' possible acts in Asia… NATO's expansion will not stop unless there is another bloc that forms as a check and balance," said Zheng Yongnian (Zheng) in an exclusive interview with Global Times (GT) reporters Li Aixin and Bai Yunyi. The war in Ukraine is far from over. Will it turn into Pandora's box for the global geopolitical landscape? What lessons can China learn? Zheng shared his views about these issues. Zheng is the presidential chair professor, acting dean of the School of Humanities and Social Science, and the Founding Director of the Advanced Institute of Global and Contemporary China Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.

"The working class of Europe and North America will pay the price of the NATO crazed suicide-mission against Russia," tweeted George Galloway (Galloway), six-term British parliamentarian. He believes the US "is ready to fight to the last drop of Ukrainian blood, in the end, it's prepared to fight to the last drop of European blood." Why does he say so? What's his take on the ongoing Ukraine crisis?

The purpose of China's proposal and appointment of the special envoy is very clear, that is, to assist regional countries in handling regional affairs independently and to achieve regional peace, stability and security development.

I could not have imagined that less than 30 years later, extreme poverty would have disappeared from China.

Westerners should study the well-established framework of fine-grained local governance, filtering down from the city to district and community levels, that has played such an instrumental role in successfully containing and clearing the COVID-19 virus.

Whole-process people's democracy establishes a system of consultation and grassroots mobilization which takes into account China's specific conditions of development.

China helps us with global problems. And so we've gained, even as we've had some problems. So for all these reasons, the fact that we always hedged, makes the view that this was a mistake silly and revisionist.

To break the ice for current China-US relations, the first move needs to be made by the US. We have a government which emphasizes competition with China. I think that is wrong.

As an American who has lived in China for 11 years, Thomas Weir Pauken II shared with the Global Times his feelings from being present at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games and what he thinks about the West's political campaign against China.

I hope COVID will force the world to cooperate in solving a global problem.

In China, because the people believe in the government and believe that the government looks after them, they impose discipline on themselves. That's a very impressive treat in China.

The Beijing Summer Olympic Games held 14 years ago were widely considered as China's coming-of-age ceremony. Next week, Beijing will become the first city to host both Summer and Winter Olympics. What do the Winter Olympic Games mean to China especially when they're held in the most trying of circumstances given the raging pandemic and US' call for "a diplomatic boycott"? Why is US' attempt to sabotage the Games doomed to fail? Global Times (GT) reporters Yu Jincui and Lu Yuanzhi interviewed Sourabh Gupta (Gupta), a senior fellow at the Washington-based Institute for China-America Studies, over these issues via email.

China and Russia have demonstrated how to form sustainable dialogue and cooperation in Central Asia. They have established large-scale coordination that is in the interests of security, stability, progress, and prosperity in Central Asia.

Editor's Note: When asked about Washington's notorious Guantanamo Bay prison, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian said on Friday that it "has fully exposed the hypocritical double standard of the US on human rights issues." In fact, while ignoring its own abuses, the US has weaponized human rights issues to smear and attack other countries. Why does the US feel threatened by China? How will the struggle over human rights between the US and other powers, such as China and Russia, end? Global Times (GT) reporter Xia Wenxin spoke with James Peck (Peck), a US scholar and adjunct professor of History at New York University.

Editor's Note: January 11 marked 20 years since the opening of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, the infamous US prison located at a US Navy base in southern Cuba that represents injustice and abuse. “How did I harm America that America has to do this to me? And of course, there was never an answer,” Moazzam Begg (Begg), a British Pakistani who was once held in extrajudicial detention by the US government in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp, told Global Times (GT) reporter Wang Wenwen in a recent interview. What was his experience there? Will the prison ever be closed? Begg shared his thoughts with GT.

Editor's Note: The China-Europe relationship hit a bumpy road in 2021, as members of the European Parliament voted to freeze the ratification of the China-EU bilateral investment treaty. Some have been vocal in criticizing China's internal affairs such as its Xinjiang policy and interfering in the Taiwan question. Where are China-EU relations heading? And what position should the EU take on the Lithuania-China spat? Global Times (GT) reporters Chen Qingqing and Bai Yunyi interviewed Clare Daly (Daly), an Irish politician and a member of the European Parliament, on these issues.

I would not compare the Cold War with today's competition between China and the US. Back then there was a real ideological competition. The Soviet Union offered its model about the achievements of people's wellbeing and happiness, and the US offered its own. On the one hand, today we are living in a very integrated world – for example, in terms of information. But on the other hand, we are also living in a very divided world, with different value systems and approaches to development.

Black swan events are unpredictable. But people should still be fully prepared psychologically: The US is a very fragile society, and anything can happen.

We must rise above our evolutionary-molded minds that radically distinguish in-groups and out-groups and thus distort rational decision-making. We must see the world from a holistic, global perspective. We must do better.

Mr. Biden and his party seem to be at an increasing disadvantage in next year's midterm elections.

There has not been any strong leader in the Western world in recent decades.

“The US is overburdening itself...The US should learn lessons from the Soviet Union.”

The US might be No.1, but its share of the whole has steadily come down over the past 80 years since the end of the Second World War.