THE CONVERSATION | Are people lying more since the rise of social media and smartphones?

Technology has given people more ways to connect, but has it also given them more opportunities to lie? You might text your friend a white lie to get out of going

World Views | What the world can learn from the Buddhist concept loving-kindness

As the world deals with the trauma caused by COVID-19, World Kindness Day, observed on Nov. 13 annually, is a good opportunity to reflect on the healing potential of both

China Daily | Sullivan’s remarks were reassuring but they need matching with deeds

  Talking about the United States’ relations with China and the Joe Biden administration’s China policies in a Sunday interview with CNN, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said the present

China Daily | Reunification will be by force if necessary whether US supports secessionists or not

  The United States should be aware that no matter what threats it makes or forces it employs, the reunification of Taiwan with the motherland is inevitable. Trying to prevent it

World Views | Optimism from climate talks: Warming projections down a bit

  With pledges for a United Nations climate conference, the world may be ever so slightly receding from gloomy scenarios of future global warming, according to two new preliminary scientific analyses

Animal Farm | Dreaming is a right!

The first time I visited China, I had been invited by Ma Man Kei, thirty-three years after the founding of the People’s Republic of China. I visited Zhuhai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen

THE CONVERSATION | Many scientists are atheists, but that doesn’t mean they are anti-religious

Distrust of atheists is strong in the United States. The General Social Survey consistently demonstrates that as a group, Americans dislike atheists more than any other religious group. According to

China Daily | Multilateralism and concrete actions prescription for green development

  Whether in response to climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic or promoting a recovery of the global economy, multilateralism is a prerequisite. Addressing these challenges is a nonstarter if all

China Daily | A mission for scientists, not spooks

  Investigations into the origins of viruses are a complicated scientific issue, and often take years or even decades to complete. Thus US President Joe Biden’s intention was questioned when he gave

World Views | Why taxing US billionaires’ wealth – as Biden tried to do – will never work

The speed with which a tax on billionaires came and went as a means to pay for President Joe Biden’s economic agenda shows why it’s so hard to tax wealth

Animal Farm | A balance of payments that doesn’t pay my doubts

I cautiously read the data released by AMCM regarding the 2020 and 2019 Balance of Payments. At the beginning of September, I contested the quality of these values in an email

THE CONVERSATION | A quick guide to climate change jargon

As a major U.N. climate conference gets underway on Oct. 31, 2021, you’ll be hearing a lot of technical terms tossed around: mitigation, carbon neutral, sustainable development. The language can

China Daily | In Games ‘together for a shared future’

  The 100-day countdown to the 2022 Winter Olympic Games has begun. And while the clock of preparation ticks, the Olympic flame, ignited for the Beijing 2022 Winter Games in Ancient

THE CONVERSATION | The future of work is hybrid

COVID-19 has changed the way we work. Even before the pandemic, the U.S. workforce increasingly relied on remote collaboration technologies like videoconferencing and Slack. The global crisis accelerated the adoption of

World Views | Kids with obesity need acceptance from family and friends, not just better diet

Hundreds of programs over the past four decades – from the removal of junk food from school vending machines to Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign – have tried to get

China Daily | Hong Kong a touchstone for US sincerity

  In a statement it released on Thursday, the United States Department of State expressed its “serious concern” about the situation in Hong Kong. But its real gripe was not what

World Views | Hollywood’s love of guns increases the risk of shootings – both on and off the set

  In what appears to be a tragic accident, actor Alec Baldwin shot dead a cinematographer on Oct 21, 2021, while discharging a prop gun on set in New Mexico. It is

Animal Farm | The economic recovery imperative

The Government has decided to launch towards the end of this economic year “8 measures to support SMEs,” to which I add, and workers. For the time being, nothing has been

THE CONVERSATION | Viruses are both the villains and heroes of life as we know it

Viruses have a bad reputation. They are responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic and a long list of maladies that have plagued humanity since time immemorial. Is there anything to celebrate

World Views | IMF official: Pandemic resurgence slows Asia’s recovery

In its recent Regional Economic Outlook, the International Monetary Fund notes that the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a turn for the worse in Asia since the spring, along with the

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