Editorial: Wang Yi offers MSC pragmatic, erudite advice

Wang Yi, one of the world’s most experienced foreign ministers, gave last week’s Munich Security Conference (MSC) a healthy dose of pragmatic and erudite advice on how to handle international relations. And, incidentally, he also promoted China’s brand-new DeepSeek chatbot, which was released to the amazement of the whole world just about a month ago to much acclaim. Of course, I am already its regular user, alongside Quora’s Poe chatbot which, no surprise, includes

February 17, 2025 | BY admin

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Foreign visitors need home-like convenience

Commentary by Kang BingThe National Immigration Administration’s new immigration-friendly policies for foreign visitors announced in December are set to prompt more foreigners to visit China. The policies show China’s determination to advance high-quality opening-up at a time when some countries are resorting to protectionism and isolationism.The new policies extend the duration of visa-free visits by foreigners to 10 days, and add 21 new ports of entry to the existing list. Since the

January 24, 2025 | BY Commentary by Kang Bing

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China-Africa win-win cooperation should be advanced for modernization and sustainability

Commentary by Arkebe OqubayChina-Africa cooperation is the largest and most dynamic form of South-South cooperation. It is comprehensive, cooperative and strategic. It is based on mutual respect and the principle of win-win cooperation. China and Africa share common aspirations for development and prosperity.Both are committed to developing a fair global governance system and represent the solidarity spirit of the Global South.It is the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Forum on

January 24, 2025 | BY Commentary by Arkebe Oqubay

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Beijing underscores need for countries to keep to the right path for inclusive development

In his address to the World Economic Forum Virtual Event of the Davos Agenda in 2021, Chinese President Xi Jinping pointed out that the problems facing the world are intricate and complex, and that no country can solve them alone or just to their own advantage. There must be global action, a global response and global cooperation, he stressed. A cold war, hot war, trade war or tech war, antagonism and confrontation are misguided approaches that eventually hurt all countries’ interests and

January 24, 2025 | BY China Daily Editorial

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An exhausted empire

        Without the ‘safety valve’ of sustained outward expansion, political and social decay is accelerating in the USSamuel Huntington’s book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order has retained significant influence. However, it also continues to face criticism for its broad generalizations and controversial assumptions, along with the rising global interconnectedness of economies and cultures that challenge the inevitability of Huntington’s

January 21, 2025 | BY Commentary by Li Xing*

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Positive phone call offers hope of new beginning for ties that will bear fruit

China Daily Editorial    President Xi Jinping again congratulated Donald Trump on Friday on his reelection as president of the United States. In a telephone call with the president-elect, Xi said that both leaders attached importance to interacting with each other. He expressed his hopes that China-US ties will have a new beginning, relations will achieve greater progress over the next four years, and the two countries will become partners and friends.Xi stressed that as two

January 20, 2025 | BY admin

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GDP growth of 5 pct hits target

Analysis    China’s gross domestic product expanded 5 percent in 2024, official data showed on Friday, which is in line with the central authorities’ preset target of around 5 percent and provides a solid base for stabilizing the economy this year.Economists said the country’s economy will likely continue to grow at around 5 percent this year if the government adopts more expansionary moves for macroeconomic adjustment to boost domestic demand.In addition, economists said they

January 20, 2025 | BY Analysis by Ouyang Shijia and Zhou Lanxu

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Editorial: Xia urges Macau & HK to fully grasp advantages of ‘One Country, Two Systems’

Xia Baolong, Beijing’s point man for Hong Kong and Macau affairs, has urged the two special administrative regions to fully grasp the advantages that the “One Country, Two Systems” principle is offering them and to focus on their governance on both high-level security and high-quality development. Xia, who paid a fact-finding visit to Macau last September, heads both the Hong Kong and Macau  Work Office (HKMWO) of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the Hong

January 13, 2025 | BY admin

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Sands China Takes Root in Macau Witnessing the Changes of the Times

Wilfred Wong: 25 Years Since the Handover Marks a Prosperous Era and a New Starting Point2024 marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China and the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Macau Special Administrative Region, as well as the 20th anniversary of the opening of Sands Macao, holding significant meaning for Sands China and Macau. Dr. Wilfred Wong, Executive Vice Chairman of Sands China Ltd., describes the 25 years since Macau’s return as having

December 19, 2024 | BY admin

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Editorial: Sam’s team pledges solution-focused, people-centred approach

Chief Executive-designate Sam Hou Fai’s 10 member-team, which was introduced to the public during a two-hour press conference at Government Headquarters in Nam Van yesterday morning, promised one by one, much to my satisfaction, a solution-focused and people-orientated approach.This is in line with President Xi Jinping’s people-centred development philosophy which has benefited the nation for more than a decade.  It is also in accordance with Sam’s election manifesto, which stressed

December 2, 2024 | BY admin

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Editorial: Xi’s LatAm trip reaffirms commitment to global community of shared future

President Xi Jinping’s 11-day working visit to Latin America, which ended on Saturday, reaffirmed China’s commitment to advancing with its goal of helping establish a global community of shared future. As Foreign Minister Wang Yi, one of the world’s most well-versed diplomats, has pointed out, Xi’s tour was “a journey of friendship across mountains and seas, a journey of solidarity to jointly promote development, and a journey of cooperation to expand partnership,” during which

November 25, 2024 | BY admin

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Editorial: China, US ought to get along for good of wider world

President Xi Jinping chose the right words when he congratulated Donald Trump on his election as the 47th president of the United States by urging both sides “to find the right way to get along in the new era, so as to benefit both countries and the wider world.”Xi’s choice of words was sober, practical and, last but not least, realistic, namely in comparison with some of the effusive congratulations by other heads of state or government, such as UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s

November 11, 2024 | BY Harald Brüning

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Editorial: Sam Hou Fai – our ‘down-to-earth’ CE-elect

I must admit that when I first heard a rumour in late August about Macau’s top judge, Sam Hou Fai, going to run for the special administrative region’s top executive post and the current chief executive, Ho Iat Seng, would not be seeking a second term, I was flabbergasted.  Well, a study released by the US-based science advancement online journal PlosOne in 2016* found that rumours that are ultimately proven true tend to be resolved faster than those that turn out to be false.In this

October 21, 2024 | BY admin

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Editorial: Last-ditch negotiations must succeed to avert China-EU trade war over EV tariffs

After the 27 European Union countries failed on Friday to agree on whether to slap China-made electric vehicles (EVs) with steeper tariffs, the European Commission under President Ursula von der Leyen may now finally get its controversial proposal to raise EU import duties on the environmentally friendly automobiles from China off the ground. The protectionist tariffs were proposed in June by the Commission, which claimed that China-made EVs were benefitting from government subsidies

October 7, 2024 | BY admin

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