Chen Weihua

Growing strategic rivalry distracts from cooperation

The two nations' growing obsession with their strategic rivalry has prevented them from realizing the full potential of their relationship.

OP Rana

Real problems need real solutions

Fighting poverty, protecting the environment and reaching healthcare to the poor seem to be the overriding priorities of politicians

Chen Weihua

Shanghai may set example for anti-graft drive

To put power in cage as President Xi has called for, it is more important to ensure that there is no abuse of power.

Huang Xiangyang

Profits may lie where only fools fear to tread

The market kept rising, even though China's economy was at a quarter-century low, even with a flood of new share listings, even though many valuations were reaching to the sky.

OP Rana

Let's toast the nobodies and some writers

Perhaps Grass deserved a better farewell, if for nothing more than having the courage to reveal his past and seek redemption. Perhaps the world has not been fair to a trailblazer.

Chen Weihua

Rule of law covers drivers and smokers

Establishing the rule of law is a grander effort than enforcing traffic rules and imposing smoking bans.

Chen Weihua

Embed idealism in constructive realism of ties

The question is whether such leaders will use their political capital to make right the most important bilateral relationship of the 21st century.

Zhu Yuan

Paranoia over China does US no good

Will the United States revert to protectionist policies to perpetuate its hegemony or stick to the principle of free trade at the risk of suffering relative decline?

Chen Weihua

Shambaugh fails to defend his position

Shambaugh, who claims to have spent a total of eight years in China, still misinterpreted the word "crossroads" in Chinese during his talk.

Op Rana

Underestimate not the power of the people

The India Against Corruption movement, and thus the AAP, was launched to demand good governance and the end of corruption in politics.

Raymond Zhou

Being 'Yang' at heart not all bad

The sheep, the zodiac animal of 2015, may be easily led astray, literally or figuratively. But in Chinese folklore, it inspires by its spirit of self-sacrifice and its association with fending off hunger.

Op Rana

GM is a question of public or private good

There is difference between food security and food safety, and people in China - given its high agricultural production - are more worried about the latter.

Chen Weihua

Abe should clarify his views on history

Some US politicians, eager to use Japan to advance the rebalance to Asia strategy, should not be blind to the confusion created by Abe over historical facts.