This eventful July will be remembered in history as a watershed for China-U.S. relations, right on the start of the 100-day countdown for President Trump’s reelection. The series of mind-boggling events have left people wonder where the bilateral relationship is heading and why all these things happened?

ON June 22, Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke via video with President of the European Council Charles Michel and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. This was the first official meeting between Chinese leadership and the new EU leadership.

THE third volume of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, published on June 30, contains a compilation of 92 of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s spoken and written works including reports, addresses, talks, speeches, written instructions, and letters from October 18, 2017 to January 13, 2020.

ON May 28, the Decision on Establishing and Improving the Legal System and Enforcement Mechanisms for Safeguarding National Security in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) was adopted at the third session of the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC).

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on July 13 that the United States rejected China’s territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests in the South China Sea, the latest provocative act in his notorious campaign to undermine China.

The U.S. provocations around the South China Sea are getting intensified in July. Right on the occasion of the 4th anniversary of the ad hoc tribunal ruling on the South China Sea Arbitration, on July 13.

The downward trend of the global economy has been obvious since the beginning of 2020, due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The IMF forecasts that it will probably shrink by 3 percent by the end of the year.

GLOBALIZATION can only be achieved through joint efforts of all humanity. The pandemic is but another facet of the level of globalization that has cropped up as an inevitability and reality of the current situation today.

CHINA’S State Council Information Office released a white paper titled “Fighting COVID-19: China in Action” in early June. The white paper chronicles China’s all-hands-on-deck response to the public health emergency, showing what makes a responsible major country in the face of a crisis.

IN the face of the deadly coronavirus that has been raging across the world for months, China and Africa have been supporting and helping each other all the time as real good friends.

On June 11, a new domestically transmitted COVID-19 case was reported in Beijing, heralding a resurgence of the epidemic in the capital city after it had been clear of the virus for 57 consecutive days with only sporadic imported cases. This demonstrates the complexity of epidemic control and sounds an alarm that there is still a long way to go before humanity tames the virus.

President Donald Trump on June 17 signed into law the Uygur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020. The legislation is based on the fallacious argument that what China is doing with its law enforcement measures in Xinjiang.

Zhu emphasized that the rights and interests of these young people should be respected and protected.

With arduous efforts, China has basically brought under control the COVID-19 pandemic despite sporadic cases reported in some regions.