More Than Letters Home: What ‘Qiaopi’ Carried Across the Seas
Qiaopi show how affection, loyalty and mutual care can bind people together across generations and oceans.
Qiaopi show how affection, loyalty and mutual care can bind people together across generations and oceans.
Across Inner Mongolia, solar panels are appearing alongside new vegetation, turning stretches of desert into hubs of both energy and growth.
Western media outlets often describe China’s growing influence as a revival of the imperial ‘tribute system.’ Yet, this framing reveals more about how the West thinks of power than about how Beijing exercises it.
Over eight decades ago, American and Chinese crews flew “the Hump” together, a deadly Himalayan airlift that helped sustain China in the war against Japanese aggression. Some flew the route and never came home. Others returned and carried its weight quietly for life.
From the brink of extinction to a flourishing population, the dramatic turn in the fate of the huangyu is a testament to China’s progress in building an ecological civilization on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau.
The resolution of this protracted conflict will depend on whether the United States can accommodate a hemisphere of sovereign equals rather than subordinate dependencies.
The rampant ‘China threat’ narrative in Western media is undermining serious journalism and damaging productive exchanges between China and Europe.
China’s position and influence in the world is changing rapidly with the effects of projects such as the Belt and Road Initiative being witnessed first in developing countries.
The BRI is a perfect practice of the philosophy of “going together,” connecting young people across countries and inspiring hope for shared prosperity.
In China, innovation rarely stays inside laboratories for long and quickly becomes part of everyday life.
The founding of the People’s Republic of China only marks the completion of the first stage of the Chinese revolution. Now it is heading for a prosperous China, a socialist modern country at a higher stage, which is the ultimate goal of mankind stated by Karl Marx.
Reliance on and service to the people have been the fundamental tenet of the CPC since its founding.
Guided by the principles of upholding free trade and fostering regional and multilateral economic and trade cooperation, it is essential to accelerate high-level implementation of the RCEP to shape a new future for Asia’s economy.
China and ASEAN share a common home, and the tariff hegemony is destroying our shared home. With Asian wisdom and action, we shall respond to the world’s uncertainties and establish a Southern paradigm for humanity’s peace and progress.
China’s proposals for reforming global governance underscore the continent’s rising influence and its growing role in shaping a fairer international order.