Editor's Note: The recent visit of centenarian veteran US diplomat Henry Kissinger to China was warmly welcome by China and has since garnered significant attention from global media outlets. The visit brings to mind Kissinger's secret trip to China in 1971, which caused a sensation worldwide.  The Global Times recently reached out former US ambassador […]

Editor's Note: Located at the southward extension of China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) are economic and trade partners of China.  To illustrate how the BRI vision has become a reality over the past decade, Global Times reporters visited a variety of countries and regions in Southeast Asia, Africa, Central […]

Eighteen days have passed since Israel launched its bombardment offensive against the besieged Gaza Strip, following a deadly attack on October 7 by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas. The conflict had killed more than 5,000 Palestinians, about 40 percent of which were children, and about 1,400 Israelis as of Monday, according to media reports. Many […]

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Thursday that he is "acutely aware of the particular threat to our open and democratic way of life" posed by China, in response to a damning report on the UK's China strategy by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee. The PM also promised that the ministers would take "all […]

Since the latest bloody conflict broke out between Israel and Palestine, voices calling for restraint or a cease-fire are hard to find in Washington. On the contrary, The US is filled with inflammatory, reckless and crazy talks.  Gordon Chang, infamous for his "China collapse theory," tweeted on Saturday local time, "#Americans, #China has been making […]

There is no confirmed evidence in academia that shows the existence of sequelae after recovery from contracting coronavirus, said a senior Chinese epidemiologist in response to the public's concerns on Wednesday. Chong Yutian, chief physician of Internal Medicine at the 3rd Affiliated Hospital of the Sun Yat-sen University and deputy director of Guangzhou Huangpu Makeshift […]

Shanghai held a series of commemorative activities on Sunday, August 13th, marking the 86th anniversary of the Battle of Songhu, also known as the Battle of Shanghai. These events aimed to honor the soldiers who fought and sacrificed their lives during the battle against Japanese invaders, while also providing an opportunity for more people to […]

"We cannot speculate on why it has taken so long to get clearance or what the issues are," said Jayant Murthy, a senior Indian astrophysicist and manager of a project dubbed the first-ever space technology collaboration between China and India. It was expected to be the first international payload to go to the China Space […]

Beyond the small mining town of Newman in Western Australia lie the first fairy circles scientists have described outside of Africa. These patches of bare soil dot outback grasslands in almost regular polka-dot patterns, just like the puzzling circle landscapes known from Namibia, says ecologist Stephan Getzin of the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research-UFZ in […]

A 305-million-year-old arachnid might shed some light on spider evolution. Researchers discovered the fossilized remains of Idmonarachne brasieri curled up in ironstone from central France. The legs, mouthparts and body of the 1-centimeter-long arachnid were all spiderlike. But the ancient arthropod was missing a key feature of all true spiders: silk-spinning organs. I. brasieri also […]