The U.S. strategy is to use the water issue to create a hot spot, sow discord between regional countries, and sabotage the Lancang-Mekong cooperation. Washington has also continued to demonize and stigmatize the Communist Party of China and the Chinese Government, portraying China as a hydro-hegemonic country. But all its attempts have ended in vain.
In short, the UN shoulders the aspirations of the world for a better future. It has done a good job contributing to peace and development of the world, and deserves a big thumbs-up.
This is what makes the book special: its honesty and applicability in day-to-day domestic and international politics, even under extreme circumstances.
Chinese leaders today, like their forebears centuries ago, have continued to demonstrate their competence in engineering and the sciences as they’ve provided a foundation for not just Xiamen but for the entire nation.
If we look at the Chinese experience over the course of reform and opening up—no other country has demonstrated a similar capacity for that kind of work. Conversely, other leading countries, including above all the United States and to a lesser degree others including Japan, have become stuck in declining positions because they are unable to reform even themselves. So in this sense, China has the capacity, opportunity and responsibility to help lead reforms.
The province is well established in terms of sustainable infrastructures (electricity, water, good roads) which are crucial for the development of any society. All in all, Yunnan is a beautiful province where nature will amaze you.
The coronavirus, as well as the other forms of virus, have driven home the value of multilateralism to address our collective challenges. United, not divided; cooperative, not confronting; and all-win, not zero-sum game represent the trend of the time.
The multilateral system must respond to the hopes, fears and insecurities of the people we serve. And only with that, the future we want can be secured.
In the U.S., a country founded on the primacy of the individual, the battle between self-interest and national interest has long been the norm in the political realm. At this challenging juncture, it is imperative that politicians have the courage to get rid of brinkmanship and put the latter above the former.
The epidemic has presented opportunities for a small number of companies focused on online education.
More importantly, while the institute’s massive dragon dance costume has been sent to another Confucius Institute in the U.S. that is still clinging to life but facing a similar fate, Kung assures his work to build bridges and foster mutual understanding and harmony, to be “responsible and open-minded” in a post-truth and angry world, is now more important than ever, and that he remains eager to work to those ends.
The mysteries of the Sanxingdui relics support the idea that the more one knows about Chinese civilization, the more difficult it becomes to grasp its complexities and nuances. The discoveries of ancient Sichuan both aid and perplex our understanding of Chinese civilization.
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