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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 […]
Read MoreDonald 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 […]
Read MoreFighting has resumed in northern Myanmar in recent days. As fierce clashes broke out between Myanmar government troops and ethnic armed forces, thousands of Myanmar people have flooded across the border into China. Work and life for Chinese residents in the border area have been seriously disturbed, writes an editorial piece of Global Times. One […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) — Eating a meal for 1 taka in Bangladesh’s capital city of Dhaka would have been unimaginable even a decade ago and by today’s standards a meal for less than 1 U.S. dollar (80 taka) in the city can’t be found even from a street vendor. But thanks to an organization […]
Read MoreDiscussions 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 […]
Read MoreThis 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 […]
Read MoreWASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (NsNewsWire) — In Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump won the presidency despite most of the analysts and opinion polls predicting his defeat to his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. U.S. pundits, experts and pollsters are now scrambling to figure out why most of them failed to predict Trump’s victory, reports Xinhua. […]
Read MoreChinese President Xi Jinping and US President-elect Donald Trump spoke on the phone Monday. Xi pointed out during the phone conversation that “the facts prove that cooperation is the only correct choice for China and the US,” which was highlighted by headlines carried in many global media outlets. Xi also emphasized that there is an […]
Read MoreDonald Trump‘s election as the next US president has created extraordinary uncertainty in the international community. From East Asia to West Europe, countries that have close or complicated relationships with the US are evaluating the consequences and likely scenarios. By now, anxieties and misgivings have got the upper hand, writes an editorial piece of Global […]
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