New York, U.S. | Xinhua | The United States and other high-income Western countries insist that they offer a more honest, open partnership with developing countries than their rivals do, but in truth, they are not always honest about the assistance they provide, reported Foreign Affairs on Wednesday. “They find ways …
Read More »U.S. has waged 400 wars since its founding in 1776: study
Tehran, Iran | Xinhua | A recent study shows that by 2019, the United States had engaged in almost 400 wars across the world since its founding in 1776, Iran’s Press TV has reported. Over the past two decades, the U.S. army has dropped a daily average of 46 bombs and …
Read More »U.S. aims to provoke regional instability with Pelosi’s Taiwan visit: Putin
Moscow, Russia | Xinhua | U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit to Taiwan is part of a deliberate U.S. strategy to destabilize the situation in the region, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday. He noted that the visit wasn’t just carried out by one “irresponsible politician,” but was …
Read More »Rising concern about political violence in U.S. after Mar-a-Lago search
Trump has been alleged to have taken classified materials from the White House to Mar-a-Lago when the Republican left office in January 2021 Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | Concern is rising about more occurrence of political violence in the United States after the search of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago …
Read More »U.S. public health officials make same mistakes with monkeypox they made with HIV/AIDS: opinion
Los Angeles, U.S. | Xinhua | Public health officials in the United States make the same mistakes with monkeypox they made during the HIV/AIDS pandemic, said an opinion piece published on the website of The Washington Post on Monday. Rae Lewis-Thornton, the author of the article and an AIDS activist who …
Read More »Int’l community blasts Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan
Beijing, China | Xinhua | Overseas scholars and officials strongly rebuked U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan on Tuesday, saying that the move severely undermines China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, seriously threatens peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait, and gravely violates international law and basic norms …
Read More »Statement by China on Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan
Beijing, China | Xinhua | China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday issued a statement on Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi’s visit to China’s Taiwan region. ▶ Following is the full text of the statement: On 2 August, in disregard of China’s strong opposition and serious representations, Speaker …
Read More »Russian parliament leader says global de-dollarization unstoppable
Moscow, Russia | Xinhua | It is obvious that the process of de-dollarization around the world has started and cannot be stopped, Vyacheslav Volodin, chairman of Russia’s lower parliament house, the State Duma, said Tuesday. After the United States withdrew from the Bretton Woods agreement, the greenback was no longer pegged …
Read More »Dollar decline to make Americans poorer: economist
New York, U.S. | Xinhua | The de-dollarization or decline of dollar hegemony will put the United States in a slow crash and make everyday Americans poorer, an economist told Xinhua. Other countries have to de-dollarize because of American foreign policy, forcing them to create an alternative, said Michael Hudson, professor …
Read More »Middle East is not someone’s backyard: China spokesperson
Beijing, China | Xinhua | The people of the Middle East are the masters of the region, and the Middle East is not someone’s backyard, let alone a so-called “vacuum,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said Friday. Wang made the remarks at a routine press briefing when asked to comment …
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