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Drone incident should prompt US to reflect

The Chinese military on Tuesday returned a US underwater drone, which was discovered in the South China Sea by a Chinese naval lifeboat last Thursday and was taken as an unidentified device. The US claimed that the event occurred about 50 nautical miles northwest of Subic Bay in the Philippines while making accusations that China’s […]

Public backs Putin to get through the worst: Global Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered his annual state of the nation address on Thursday. He mostly focused on Russia’s internal affairs with abundant confidence, and talked about international relations in a level-headed and composed manner. He hailed Russia’s relationship with China as a role model for international relations in general. He said Moscow wanted to […]

Indian opposition parties call for nationwide protests over demonetization

NEW DELHI, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) — India’s opposition parties Monday called for nationwide protests over the government’s demonetization move. The country’s main opposition Congress party held protests in various states against the sudden scrapping of currency notes of higher denominations and its impact on the common people, but stayed away from the shutdown call by […]

Modi takes a gamble with money reform

Earlier this month, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi banned 500- and 1,000-rupee notes to crack down on corruption and counterfeit currency. Recently the Indian government halted the exchange of old notes at bank counters, writes an editorial piece of Global Times. As more than 90 percent of transactions in India are made with cash, banning […]

Why does Russian propaganda vex the EU?

Donald Trump‘s presidential election win has raised people’s expectation of an improvement in US-Russian relations. At this critical juncture, a new round of friction between Russia and the West emerged over recent Moscow’s deployment of state-of-the-art missiles in its Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad. NATO on Tuesday lashed out at Russia’s move, saying it is […]

40 Iranian pilgrims killed in Iraq’s suicide bomb attack

TEHRAN, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) — Iran’s Foreign Ministry announced on Friday that at least 40 Iranian pilgrims were killed in Iraq’s Thursday suicide bomb attack, State IRINN TV reported. Also, 20 other Iranian pilgrims were injured in the attack, Iran’s deputy Foreign Minister Hassan Qashqavi was quoted as saying. A suicide tanker truck bomb attack […]

Syria’s Assad hails Russia’s stance as “natural superpower”

DAMASCUS, Nov. 23 (NsNewsWire) — Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad hailed on Tuesday the Russian stance regarding the war on terror in Syria, saying such a stance proves Moscow’s “natural statues” as a superpower. Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian delegation to Syria and Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, said the main goal […]

Can China overtake US to lead the world?

Discussions were running high on global governance among Western public opinion on the eve of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders meeting in Lima, Peru. Some Western media outlets hold the US is giving up its global leadership following Donald Trump‘s election as US president on promises to abolish the Trans-Pacific Partnership and withdraw from […]

Trump meets Abe, but fails Japan

This time, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is No.1 in the world. He met with US President-elect Donald Trump in New York on Thursday for 90 minutes, and became the first foreign leader to meet with Trump after the US election, writes an editorial piece of Global Times. Not much information was released following the […]