Opinion News
UPDATED: 09:42, June 25, 2007
Microsoft operating system caches secret surveillance programs on China?
On June 5th, China.com published an article titled "Attention: Microsoft
Stealing Chinese state secrets,": which immediately became a hot topic
for discussion. Is Microsoft's operating system, reported by Norton
through the "back door":, built with a secret surveillance program on
China by the United States government? Here, I will call it the
"Backdoor": Incident. I think Microsoft should give us an explanation.
Why highway subjected to groundless surmise?
The news on China's plan to build a road up to a base camp of Mount
Qomolangma (known as Mt. Everest in the West) has drawn sustained media
attention overseas. Quite a few Western media organs have voiced worries
about the environment in their reports, whereas in India, China's giant
neighbor to the southwest, there are also a lot of worries for the
"security reason" in addition to those concerns about environment
protection. Ranking officials of some Indian political parties openly
claimed that China wants to erode Indian territories despite the
irrefutable fact that the world's highest peak is located on the
Sino-Nepalese border instead of being on the Sino-India border.
China-US trade faces new variables
Since the US Department of Commerce has issued a new regulation on
controlling exports of high-tech products to China, experts believe that
the progress on the trade surplus issue will be made in vain. The Chinese
Ministry of Commerce responded, on Tuesday, that the US should be
responsible for any negative consequences. China-US trade relations are
facing new variables. Analysts believe that the US would rather forfeit
in the trade deficit issue for reasons of "security." It has been
difficult to avoid the issue during the fourth China-US strategic
dialogue which began on Wednesday.
Time to end the feud
On the 18th, Palestinian National Authority Chairman, Mahmud Abbas,
announced the dismissal of the safety committee, originally set up with
the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in order to solve the
issue of the command the security forces.
Tell the truth, but don't be too late
Some "old debts" of the U.S. army in Iraq have been recently dug out
again. Former U.S. army Major General, Antonio M. Taguba, who led
investigations of detainee abuse in the Abu Ghraib prison in the suburbs
of Baghdad, broke his silence recently with a claim that he was forced by
the Pentagon to retire from the army because he was "too enthusiastic"
about the investigations. He also accused some senior commanders of being
involved in the world-shocking scandal, especially then Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld who, Taguba is convinced, must have known the truth.
Commentary: Bribers are guilty too
Giving and receiving bribes are both crimes, but China's courts
traditionally mete out heavy penalties to those who take bribes while
letting off the people who give bribes as long as they confess.
Who moved China's huge savings?
There are several explanations for China's economic achievements, but of
all of them, a high rate of savings has been the most important factor.
Democracy in China's Internet politics
An article on China's Internet politics, published recently in the
Learning Times newspaper, has aroused much attention on the Internet. The
article explains that Internet politics refers to the phenomenon that the
public can participate in politics and discuss politics through the
Internet; while the politicians can communicate with the public through
the internet. It also points out that the Internet has deeply changed the
political environment in China and has provided a new method and channel
for the development of democratic politics. Thus, it also calls on
Chinese leaders to adapt to the development of Internet politics.
Can Washington turn crisis into opportunity?
Drastic changes in Gaza have shocked the United States. The media say the
recent events indicated the failure of Israel's Palestinian policy, and
are also natural outcomes of the Bush administration's six years of
negligence. However, the U.S. and Israel seemed to have uncovered an
opportunity from this incident, from which they can both avail
themselves. Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, arrived in Washington to
discuss and coordinate with President Bush, the two nations' new
strategies within Palestinian.
Tibet's progress
Six consecutive years of GDP growth above 12 percent. Double-digit
increases in per capita net income for farmers and herdsmen four years in
a row.
PD Online Forum: Kyrgyzstan, China are neighbors, friends and partners
At the invitation of People's Daily Online, ambassador of the Kyrgyz
Republic to China, Sultanov Lamil, paid a visit to the Strong China Forum
on June 14th, during which he talked freely about the issues of common
concern; from Kyrgyzstan's policy on China to Chinese president Hu
Jintao's upcoming visit to the central Asian country, and answered
questions posed by netizens.
Official on tax refund adjustment for some export goods
With the approval of the State Council, or the Chinese central
government, the Ministry of Finance, the State Administration of
Taxation, the State Development & Planning Commission, the Ministry of
Commerce and the General Administration of Customs jointly issued a
circular on Monday, or June 18, to adjust downwards tax refund on some
export commodities. It specifies that tax refund for some export products
will be adjusted as of July 1st, 2007. A Ministry of Finance official
Tuesday gave a press interview on the relevant matters on the export tax
refund adjustment. The detailed account of the interview is as follows:
Inside story about China's first H-bomb development
On June 17, 1967, a small fighter plane released a parachute above the
skies over Xinjiang, in northwestern China. When the parachute was 3000
meters above the ground, it exploded. With a huge "bang", a huge mushroom
cloud arose.
China says no to "Toxic Chinese Toothpaste Incident"
On June 11th, claiming that 0.21%-7.5% diethylene glycol was found in
three brands of toothpaste made in Chinese mainland (i.e. MAXAM, Sanqi
and Tianqi), Hong Kong Customs urged local consumers not to use these
three brands of products, and notified sales companies and retailers to
recall these products. China's General Administration of Quality
Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, in turn, responded on June 14th
with hope that Hong Kong Customs can properly handle this matter, and
restore sales of these products in Hong Kong.
Will "roadmap" for EU treaty get passed in Brussels?
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, or the EU rotary chairman country,
has appealed to EU nations to support a roadmap she has proposed after
her active consultations with them for the revival of the "EU charter
treaty" that had been agrounded in 2005. She will present the roadmap on
Thursday, or June 21 to the EU summit for discussion in a hope of having
it passed by the EU member nations before the election of the European
Parliament in 2009.
Demystify world's largest bird-like dinosaur
After two years of study, scholars of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and
Bureau of State Land and Resources of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region,
recently announced that the skeletal remains of a gigantic, surprisingly
bird-like dinosaur, Gigantoraptor erlianensis, found in the Erlian Basin
in Inner Mongolia and newly classified as a species and genus, is the
largest of its kind known to the world. The remains were on display at
the news conference held in the Beijing Olympic Media Center on June 13th.
Brick kiln slavery scandal demonstrates poor governance
Chinese police have detained 168 people accused of keeping workers in
slavery under appalling conditions at small brick kilns and mines in the
provinces of Shanxi and Henan.
Guard against the overflow of new trade protectionism trend
A new trend of thought with respect to a new trade protectionism has been
overflowing in the United States, Europe and Japan in recent years. This
trend is designed to retain their dominant status in global economic
competition in compliance with the socio-economic features of their
respective countries under the conditions of economic globalization. The
new trade protectionism is a new form of global economic rivalry in the
contemporary world and has wrought relatively great negative impact to
the growth of China's external trade. For the past eleven consecutive
years, China has become the world's No. one target of anti-dumping
investigations, with an ensuing annual loss of anywhere from 30 billion
to 40 billion US dollars.
Russia challenges the world economic system
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the control of the world
economic system by a few developed countries is outdated; it is necessary
to establish a new world economic order to reflect the growing role of
rapidly developing emerging nations.
Fratricide is really painful, heart-rending!
Scene after scene of increasingly bloody fighting between ruling Hamas
Islamists and President Mahmoud Abbas's secular faction have been going
on in the Gaza strip of Palestine these days.
China, US to step up co-op on IPR law enforcement
Mou Xinsheng, director general of the General Administration of Customs
of China (GACC), who just returned to Beijing from the second meeting of
US-China Strategic Economic Dialogue held in Washington D.C. on May
22-23, has had an exclusive interview with People's Daily reporter Luo
Lan on the "Cooperation Memorandum on Strengthening the Intellectual
Property Rights (IPR) Law Enforcement. The questions and answers of the
interview are as follow:
Nezha defeats Harry Potter in China
Facing the challenge of influential foreign animation and fantasy
literature such as the Harry Potter series, China's children's authors
have not diverged from their dedication to works of value, cultural
responsibility and social awareness. Instead, they have gradually paved a
new literary path that relates to the modern era, is relevant to real
life scenarios of today's youth and children, and easy for the young
readers of the 21st century to accept and embrace; traditional characters
such as Nezha and the Monkey King (Sun Wukong) are timeless favorites in
Chinese children's reading materials and have touched many children's
hearts.
China and EU endeavor for closer financial ties
The intensive and extensive exchange of visits recently between Chinese
and EU delegations show an intention to establish closer ties in the
financial sector after China opened up its service industry.
Chinese travelers changing the world's tourism pattern
In 2006, the number of Chinese tourists who traveled abroad reached 34.52
million, a record high in history. From January to March of this year,
the number already reached 9.7 million, 14.5% higher than in the same
period last year.
The untimely anti-ballistic missile system
In step with deploying missile defense systems in Europe, the United
States is also engaging in intensive talks with Japan in the Asia-Pacific
region, so as to speed up the construction of a missile defense system in
this region.
Putin shuffles Washington a hot potato
During their meeting at the G8 Summit in Germany, Russian President
Vladimir Putin suddenly proposed a new suggestion to US President George
W. Bush: the US could jointly use the radar station in Azerbaijan with
Russia if the US wanted to set up an anti-missile system.
Interpretation of "American pragmatism"
During a speech on US foreign policy recently delivered at the New York
Economic Club, United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defined
the US diplomatic policy as "American-style pragmatism."
Will the Asian Financial Crisis break out again?
Ten years ago, starting in Thailand, the Asian Financial Crisis swept
throughout the entire region of Southeast Asia, and continued on to
affect the whole world. Ten years have passed, so how can the Asian
financial market shrug off its inner mistakes and continue on a healthy
path?
Development is the only solution
The recent meeting between G-8 leaders and the leaders of five developing
countries in a small German town is a true indication that some major
changes are taking place in the world. Beginning two years ago, the G8 +5
dialogue model has declared to the world that this stage of globalization
is no longer entirely dominated by developed countries.
PD Online Forum: Building a healthy, prosperous stock market
Ups and downs in the Chinese stock market weeks before have taught
domestic investors a lesson that they will never forget: tears, laughs,
joy and sorrow. As more and more ordinary Chinese set foot into the
overheated stock market, it has been put into question whether the stock
watchdog in China has lost control over the domestic market, and whether
raising the stamp tax is a kind of black-box operation?
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