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Xin Ping

The author is a commentator on international affairs, writing regularly for CGTN, Global Times, etc. He can be reached at xinping604@gmail.com.

    September 12, 2026
    Business

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    9/11: What Went Wrong?

    Editor’s Note: This essay was originally published in The New Yorker two months after 9/11. The tragedy re-engineered the West while imposing a huge cost on the rest of the world. Twenty-five years after the terrorist attacks, we believe that

    September 12, 2026

    Putin’s Fortress Arrives in Delhi

    Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

    Diplomacy is usually conducted across polished tables. Increasingly, it is also conducted in the back seat of an armoured limousine. On Friday, Prime Minister

    Hasina’s Daughter Says WHO Found China Allegations ‘Unsubstantiated’

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    Nearly a year after being sidelined from one of the World Health Organisation’s most senior regional positions, former WHO South-East Asia Regional Director Saima

    The U.S. Double Standard Disaster

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    Columns/Geopolitics

    The Middle East, a region scarred by decades of conflict, is once again teetering on the brink of catastrophe. As Gaza crumbles under Israeli bombardment and Iran faces escalating threats, US complicity

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    From ‘America First’ to ‘America Only’ — A Chinese Viewpoint

    April 3, 2025
    Columns/Geopolitics

    Thanks to the United States, “tariff” has become one of the top buzzwords in international politics. In rapid succession, the White House has announced 25 percent tariffs on all imported steel and

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    The CIA’s Recruitment Drive in China — A Chinese Viewpoint

    December 1, 2024
    Columns/Defence

    The United States has long relied on covert operations to infiltrate and undermine China. Yet on October 2, 2024, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) posted a video in Mandarin titled “Securely

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    Article 23: Hong Kong’s autonomy brooks no external interference

    March 13, 2024
    Diplomacy

    The four-week public consultation on the proposed legislation of Article 23 of the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) of the People’s Republic of China (hereinafter referred to

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    Let the universal human rights be what they should be

    January 14, 2024
    Human Rights

    The freshly concluded 2023 marked the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which has great significance in human history and has had a profound impact on the cause of

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    China, U.S. share responsibility to cooperate on AI

    December 14, 2023
    Artificial Intelligence/Diplomacy

    Only 22 years after Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster movie “AI” (artificial intelligence) came to the big screen, the imaginary scenes in the movie are becoming real: AI is permeating our everyday life. According

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    From San Francisco onward, what’s next for China and U.S.?

    November 27, 2023
    Columns

    The world had been holding breath for the historical San Francisco summit between President Xi Jinping and President Joe Biden that would pull back China-U.S. relations from running further downhill and thus

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    US needs to show sincerity to improve ties with China

    July 8, 2023
    Columns/Diplomacy

    Guided by a Cold War mindset, the United States always believes it can pressure China on any issue so long as the lines of communication are kept open. This is a false

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    West’s Bigotry and “Let Them Eat Tweets” style of Governance

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    For centuries, the self-righteous West has been obsessed with transplanting its own culture and systems into other countries, inflicting countless deaths and suffering in the lands it deemed as “uncivilized” or “underdeveloped.”

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