• EU's assertiveness weakened by divisions: China Daily editorial
    2025-01-23

    Two days after the new US president took office saying the European Union is "very, very bad" to the United States and threatened to impose tariffs on the bloc's exports, France and Germany replied in one voice that Europe will seek good cooperation with the US as "a constructive and assertive partn...

  • "Three-Body" virtual world reflects China's sci-fi industry boom
    2025-01-23

    People experience "Three-Body" VR adventure in the Three-Body Four-Dimensional Space, the world's first offline experience facility recreating the Three-Body universe, in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, Sept. 22, 2024. Three-Body Universe Shanghai Cultural Development Co., ...

  • Trump administration sued over birthright citizenship order
    2025-01-22

    US President Trump in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on Monday. [PhotoAgencies] SACRAMENTO, the United States -- About 20 states and the city of San Francisco unleashed a legal firestorm Tuesday by filing a federal lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's controversial executive order ...

  • Immigration crackdown, deportation bid launched
    2025-01-22

    Margelis Tinoco, a migrant from Colombia, reacts after receiving news that her CBP One appointment was canceled, on the Inauguration Day of Donald Trump's second presidential term, at the Paso del Norte International Bridge in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday. JOSE LUIS GONZALEZREUTERS WASHINGTON...

  • US again puts climate fight at a crossroads
    2025-01-22

    Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th US President in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on Jan 20, 2025. [PhotoAgencies] US President Donald Trump announced the US' withdrawal from the landmark Paris climate agreement just hours after being sworn in for a second term. This decision on Mon...

  • Yoon attends court hearing for first time
    2025-01-22

    South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol attends the third formal hearing of his impeachment trial at the Constitutional Court in Seoul on Tuesday. WOO-HAE CHO VIA XINHUA SEOUL — South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol appeared at the Constitutional Court for the first time on Tuesday, and vo...

  • RCEP an FTA with 'low ambition' but high potential
    2025-01-22

    JIN DINGCHINA DAILY The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement that entered its third year on Jan 1 is a significant rules-based trade and economic framework for the Asia-Pacific region. Although the negotiations for the RCEP, which comprises the 10 ASEAN member states and five of...

  • Trump seen using TikTok for leverage
    2025-01-22

    A woman poses in front of a TikTok logo at the TikTok house on the opening day of the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Monday. [PhotoAgencies] United States President Donald Trump is seemingly using TikTok, a popular social media platform owned by Chinese ...

  • UK to hold public inquiry into dance class killings
    2025-01-22

    Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks during a press conference at the Downing Street Briefing Room in central London, Britain Jan 21, 2025, following the guilty plea of the Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana. [PhotoAgencies] The United Kingdom's prime minister admitted on Tuesday the stat...

  • Tariff hikes may backfire on US
    2025-01-22

    The new US administration's intention to impose massive tariffs on China and other trading partners risks undermining its commitment to fighting inflation, potentially heightening the costs for consumers in the United States while slowing US economic growth, economists and analysts said. They added...

  • Macron wants to reduce reliance on US weapons
    2025-01-22

    France's President Emmanuel Macron delivers his new year speech to the French army on Monday during a visit to its Digital Support and Cyber Command in Cesson-Sevigne, western France. [PhotoAgencies] France's President Emmanuel Macron has used the return to the White House of United States Presid...

  • Trump signs executive order to quit Paris climate accord
    2025-01-21

    US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House on Inauguration Day in Washington, US, January 20, 2025. [PhotoAgencies] WASHINGTON -- US President Donald Trump late Monday signed an executive order to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord. The move means the Uni...

  • Billionaires now richer, more powerful, Oxfam warns
    2025-01-21

    The gap between rich and poor has widened, with the planet's richest 1 percent owning 45 percent of its wealth while 44 percent of the population scrapes by on less than $6.85 a day, according to the anti-poverty organization Oxfam International. Oxfam made the claim as political and business leade...

  • Orban urges EU to adapt to global challenges
    2025-01-21

    Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during a conference on the country's presidency of the Council of the EU in Budapest, Hungary Jan 20, 2025. [PhotoAgencies] BUDAPEST - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Monday urged the European Union EU to adapt to global challenges and redefin...

  • Trump sworn in as 47th US president
    2025-01-21

    Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th US President in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on Jan 20, 2025. [PhotoAgencies] WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States in the Rotunda of the US Capitol at noon on Monday, beginning his second term as he re...