ecns.cn (2021-09-10). Xi calls for adding more positive factors to China-U.S. relations. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping said Friday that relevant government agencies of China and the United States could advance collaboration and tap more cooperation potential, so as to add more positive factors to the bilateral relationship.

The Conversation (2021-09-10). Minerals, drugs and China: How the Taliban might finance their new Afghan government. juancole.com By Hanif Sufizada | — Now that the Taliban have reportedly taken full control of Afghanistan and begun forming a government, a looming challenge awaits: How will they keep their country and economy afloat financially? For the past 20 years, the U.S. government and other countries have financed the vast majority of the Afghan government's …

Dongsheng News (2021-09-10). News on China | No. 67. dissidentvoice.org Among the topics in this episode of News on China: how China plans to control housing prices, mushroom cultivation and poverty alleviation, and China seeking the integration of Guangdong and Macao.

Rick Rozoff (2021-09-10). Identifying China, Russia as threats, Finland reserves NATO option. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Government proposes 500 new jobs for Finnish Defence Forces The report describes Finland's defence environment as being "tense and difficult to predict." It emphasises the growing strategic importance of Finland's neighbouring Arctic areas and the perception of Northern European defence as a whole. The report furthermore points to intensified competition between the great powers affecting …

ecns.cn (2021-09-10). Xi says China-U.S. relations vital to world's future. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping said Friday that whether China and the United States can properly manage their relations concerns the future of the world, and is a question of the century both countries must answer well.

Editor (2021-09-10). China's shifting overseas energy footprint. mronline.org New data sheds light on how much overseas coal power capacity China is involved in, and to what extent it is changing.

ecns.cn (2021-09-10). Xi urges early return of China-U.S. relations back to right track. ecns.cn Xi Jinping said Friday that China and the United States should show a broad perspective, shoulder big responsibilities, and bring bilateral relations back to the right track of steady development as soon as possible.

ecns.cn (2021-09-09). China issues human rights action plan for 2021-2025. ecns.cn China on Thursday published the latest human rights action plan, setting the objectives and tasks of respecting, protecting and promoting human rights in the period from 2021 to 2025.

ecns.cn (2021-09-09). China opposes Western politicians' intervention in Hong Kong matters. ecns.cn The Office of the Commissioner of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Thursday expressed its strong disapproval and firm opposition to remarks by several Western politicians regarding Hong Kong's affairs, saying they confused black and white and disrupted the HKSAR's rule of law.

ecns.cn (2021-09-09). China to continue protecting rights of particular groups: action plan. ecns.cn China will continue to ensure equal rights for ethnic minority groups, women, children, the elderly, persons with disabilities, and other disadvantaged groups and improve special protection for them, said a human rights action plan.

Kevin Mwanza (2021-09-09). China Bans Men Considered 'Girly' From Appearing On TV. moguldom.com TV regulators in China have called on broadcasters to stop showing "sissy men and other abnormal esthetics" on TV as part of its effort to clean up airwaves and enforce official morality, using an offensive slang term for effeminate men — "niang pao" meaning "girlie guns." The onslaught reflects official concern in the communist government …

Staff (2021-09-09). US Supplanted by China as EU's Primary Trading Partner. orinocotribune.com China overtook the United States as the leading trading partner of the European Union (EU) in the second quarter of 2021, according to data published this Wednesday, September 8 by the EU statistical office Eurostat. | Between the first quarter of 2019 and the second of 2021, the percentage of imports from China to the EU increased by four points. | In the case of Switzerland, the share of imports grew in the same period by 0.7 percentage points, while there was a 3.4% fall in imports from the United Kingdom, followed by those from Russia, which suffered a decrease of 1.1%, and those from the United States, with…

Katsuji Nakazawa (2021-09-09). El viraje a la izquierda de Xi lleva a China hacia un socialismo real. globalizacion.ca Es casi imposible exagerar el impacto que están produciendo las noticias en Hangzhou, así como en toda China. El sábado recién pasado, la agencia anti-sobornos de China dijo que el principal funcionario de esa ciudad y secretario del Partido Comunista,…