Preventing Islamic risk on ‘Belt and Road’
When promoting OBOR, China should fully consider risk returns, and try to maximize returns while minimizing risk.
THAAD pulls US allies into strategy of containing China
The US missile defense should be examined in a broader context of the regional and global security.
Deployment dents Russia’s plan to develop far east
Moscow will not sit still in face of provocations from Washington and Seoul. It is expected that Russia will adjust its national security concepts, and extreme countermeasures will not be excluded.
India, China complement each other in Africa
China and India have important common interests regarding Africa. As the members of the BRICS mechanism, China, India and South Africa have been keenly pursuing economic cooperation and reconstructing global orders. This is one of the key and promising cooperative points for the elephant and the dragon.
Asian math multiplies
Half of Britain's primary schools set to teach maths Chinese-style
Turkey instability might cause ripple effect
The West does not want to see Turkey moving toward an authoritarian regime.
Why hasn’t there been a color revolution in China?
It is time for the West to re-evaluate its opinion of China. It’s going to be a historic process. Yet if Western nations can go beyond their previous misunderstandings, carefully research China and acknowledge that there are other development modes that are equally reasonable and efficient as theirs, not only will they stop raising silly questions, more tragedies can also be avoided.
Failed coup in Turkey has far-reaching significance
Observers widely believe that Erdogan will further consolidate his power after foiling the coup. A political purge will be inevitable as he has stated he would punish the participants. This coup will not be the end to the country’s political woes. Rather, it might signal a more intense political struggle. This major Islamic country is facing a daunting challenge.
Worship of foreign products offers no solution
When summer, the season for rainstorms and flash flood, comes, the time for lavishing praise on German-made drainage pipes and metallic anti-flood walls has also arrived.
Virtually remembered
Dead heroes get memorials, in real life and elsewhere. In May, Wu Hongyu, a 20-year-old college student in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, chased after a thief who had stolen a classmate’s motorbike, and died when he crashed his own bike into the thief’s.
Knotted hatreds behind terror attacks in France
The southern French city Nice was shrouded in terror on Thursday night after a truck ploughed through the crowds celebrating Bastille Day, killing more than 80. Reports said the attacker, 31, was a Nice local of Tunisian origin.
Beijing can't risk pushing Seoul closer to US
With the deployment decision of THAAD, the much-touted "honeymoon" period between Seoul and Beijing is over, but it doesn't mean that the couple will divorce. Very few people divorce after they return from the honeymoon, even though they have to face the reality of everyday life.
THAAD threatens return to Cold War thinking
The Beijing-Seoul relationship has been under the spotlight in recent years, especially after Seoul announced Friday the deployment of the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system to counter a string of nuclear attempts by Pyongyang. Some scholars conjecture that while South Korea is under pressure to develop friendly ties with China, the latter has not shown enough support for the former on North Korea’s nuclear issues, which is to blame for the South Korean government’s decision to deploy the THAAD system.
Impossible dream
East China Sea arbitration will only entail loss for Tokyo