President Xi Jinping at the 10th meeting of the CPC Central Committee for Financial and Economic Affairs held on August 17 stressed that “common prosperity is an essential requirement of socialism and a key feature of Chinese-style modernization.” The meeting called for “expanding the proportion of middle-income groups, increasing the income of low-income groups, reasonably adjusting high incomes, outlawing illegal incomes, and forming an olive distribution structure with large middle and small ends.”

Taking over the revolving presidency of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) from Russia, Tajikistan hosted the 21st SCO Leaders’ Summit on September 16-17 in the capital city Dushanbe. The Afghanistan-themed SCO summit followed a number of meetings between ministers of foreign affairs, defence, finance, national security advisors of its member states in the last two months that have consolidated mutual trust and peaceful cooperation among its group members. The 21st SCO summit saw the accession of Iran as a new member to the SCO family.

After its resounding blow to Afghanistan by occupying the Central Asian country for two decades, then compounding it with a hasty pullout condemned by the entire world as shameful, the United States still has the nerve to continue its dangerous bullying of China under the Joe Biden administration.

Chinese President Xi Jinping noted in his phone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on September 10 that the frequent and effective exchanges between their countries reflect the high level of trust between them. Xi expressed his appreciation for Merkel's efforts to promote practical cooperation and friendly exchanges, not just between China and Germany, but also between China and countries in the European Union.

China’s frequent high-profile international exchanges in September highlight the country’s pursuit of openness and cooperation. During the first half of 2021 China’s trade volume climbed by 27.1 percent year-on-year to RMB 18.07 trillion, according to General Administration of Customs statistics, signifying an upbeat, stable growth momentum.

The Chinese government holds no intentions of taking a passive approach should leaders in Washington, London and Brussels choose to pursue China containment and economic decoupling strategies. For the moment, anti-China sentiments have risen at alarming levels in Australia, United States, Canada, United Kingdom and European Union.

Recently the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) released a detailed report on the achievements and contributions of the CPC in the growth and development of China and the world.

On May 24, Guillermo Lasso assumed the presidency of Ecuador. One of his most important objectives is the vaccination of nine million Ecuadorians in the first 100 days of his administration, the so-called “9/100 plan,” for which the country mainly relies on the vaccine produced by the Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac. To achieve this and other objectives, what will be the parameters that the new Ecuadorian government will seek to establish in its relationship with China?

In 2006, the Brookings Institution, one of the most influential think tanks in the United States, launched the John L. Thornton China Center, calling for a constant focus on a rising China. Overseas research on the Communist Party of China (CPC) has long been carried out by government agencies, scholars, think tanks, and media groups.

On September 8, 2021, coinciding with the UNESCO International Literacy Day, the first dialogue of China-Europe-America Philanthropy Cooperation Initiative was held virtually via video link. The meeting was co-organized by the China-Europe-America Global Initiative and the Belgian-Chinese Chamber of Commerce (BCECC). More than 30 attendees from the sectors of charity, academics, art, and business shared their experiences, studies, and opinions on ways to promote high-quality development of global philanthropy.

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is a multilateral financial institution, which is young among the community of multilateral development banks. The goal of AIIB is to assist Asia for a prosperous future. AIIB works with the slogan to build infrastructure for tomorrow by adopting principles of sustainability, innovation and prosperity for the people. AIIB is motivated to assist countries in adopting innovative solutions and technology for building infrastructure, which can generate economic activities and enhance connectivity. It also tries to present solutions, which can meet the need and demands of clients.

The western mainstream media and Washington Beltway foreign policy think tanks have spread alarmist tales about the Chinese government pushing ahead on reforms and describing Beijing’s crackdown on corporate monopolies and big business as deviant. They argue Chinese President Xi Jinping stands hell-bent to punish the nation’s private enterprises and business leaders to demonstrate Beijing’s strong grip over the country and they warn much more bad news will be yet to come.

The US National Intelligence Council released on August 27 the unclassified summary of the US intelligence agencies’ COVID-19 origin report (IC report). As widely expected, the report found nothing but a repetition of the scientists’ findings thus far: still two hypotheses — infected by animal and lab accident, with the former most likely.

There might be no better way to explain why China continues to charge ahead than by looking at coronavirus. Over the past month, as the Delta variant tore through one country and then another, China shut it down. When the variant appeared in China, specifically in Nanjing, it did not take long to spread to multiple Chinese cities. The Chinese government quickly rolled out a multi-pronged plan to stunt further spread, using lockdowns at specific times and in specific locations, along with travel restrictions and mass testing.