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Food safety laws must be well enforced

[2017-01-24 08:32]

THREE BEIJING franchises of the Han Li Xuan Korean barbecue chain were found to be using duck meat for what they claimed was geese, pork, and corned beef. The food and drug authorities in Beijing ordered the three restaurants to stop operations and have sent a request to the related provincial administrations to check the details of the meat supply companies before proceeding further with their investigation. The Legal Evening News commented on Monday:

Transatlantic alliance is likely to experience biggest shift for decades

[2017-01-24 08:32]

An Italian band refused an invitation to perform at Donald Trump's inauguration as the 45th US president on Friday in Washington and some European representatives did not turn up. Meanwhile European TV viewers were left constantly shaking their heads as Trump delivered his inauguration speech.

Backpedalling will not facilitate rebuilding of American greatness

[2017-01-23 07:46]

From his reportedly self-written inauguration speech to the goodbye-everything-of-the-past policy statements, Donald Trump, now the 45th President of the United States, has shown his administration will be going off the beaten track.

Local leaders must be held accountable for air pollution

[2017-01-23 07:46]

LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AUTHORITIES and other parties concerned will be held accountable for poor performance in curbing air pollution, according to the Ministry of Environmental Protection on Friday. Beijing News commented on Sunday:

Reduce heavy burden of fees on enterprises

[2017-01-23 07:46]

ZONG QINGHOU, founder of China's largest beverage company, Hangzhou Wahaha Group in East China's Zhejiang province, said in an interview a month ago that his company paid over 40 million yuan ($5.8 million) in mandatory fees between January and November last year. Beijing News commented on Friday:

Clearer definition required of what constitutes real gun

[2017-01-23 07:46]

A DRAFT of the revised Law on Penalties for Administration of Public Security has recently been published to solicit public opinions for a month. Southern Metropolis Daily commented on Saturday:

United States will gain little from a trade war

[2017-01-23 07:46]

Will there be a trade war between the world's two largest trading powers? Anxiety is spreading among business people around the world as the Trump administration takes office in the United States, with many saying a showdown with China is unavoidable and imminent.

Trump's protectionism has historical precedent

[2017-01-23 07:46]

After his inauguration, US President Donald Trump has begun to reset the White House trade policies. But the consequences of his "America First" stance could be disastrous.

One-China policy is nonnegotiable

[2017-01-23 07:46]

President Donald Trump was sworn into power on Friday, assuming a tremendous amount of responsibility for the welfare and security of Americans. And as the United States is the world's sole superpower and highly interdependent with the rest of the world, Trump also shoulders great responsibility for global peace and development.

Trump's foreign policy yet to emerge

[2017-01-23 07:46]

The United States' foreign friends and partners had hoped that as the new US President, Donald Trump might temper the aggressive rhetoric he employed when campaigning, and that somehow, as one commentator put it, "the trailer would turn out to be worse than the movie".

Look at history to see the future

[2017-01-22 15:51]

My recent piece of work on de-globalization and China-WTO issues was published by China Daily and picked up by Eureporter. I received lots of feedback, either favoring globalization or against Chinese social-economic-political directions and its "fake" stance of openness, non-discrimination, and equality....

Gulf economies complementary to China

[2017-01-22 15:51]

More than 100 countries and international organizations have expressed their willingness to be part of the Belt and Road Initiative (the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road). China has signed various forms of cooperation agreements with more than 40 countries along the routes since President Xi Jinping proposed the initiative in 2013.

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