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A Level-Headed Compromise

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's China visit manages to strike a balance between German economic issues and political interests.

13:37, 11-07, 2022
Toward a Global Pandemic Strategy

Pandemics cause panic, fear, and chaos. We have seen this pattern unfold repeatedly across the world with waves of the COVID-19 pandemic rippling through our populations. When humans are stressed, we tend to close doors and borders to protect ourselves, make impulsive decisions, be suspicious of others, and even deny the situation.

11:28, 11-29, 2021
A Common Quest to Save Our Planet's Climate

The West has been a leading pollutor of air and water for more than a quarter of a millennium. It was the U.K. that started the ball rolling with its industrial revolution of 1760, while other developed countries gradually followed suit by ruthlessly exploiting old Europe and their newly discovered continents’ resources.

12:30, 10-28, 2021
Tackling Biodiversity Loss and Climate Crises Together

“The 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) is held at a crucial time prior to the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) which will take place in U.K.’s Glasgow from October 31 to November 12. Biodiversity loss and climate change are so inseparable that they need to be dealt with together,” Eleanor Whittle, Climate and Natural Resources Advisor at the British Embassy in China, told China Today on October 14, 2021, on the sidelines of COP15.

16:26, 10-15, 2021
Kunming Declaration, Ambitious Yet Feasible

The Kunming Declaration was adopted on October 14 at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) in Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan Province. A main achievement of this conference, the declaration commits to ensuring the formulation, adoption and implementation of an effective post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework to reverse the current loss of biodiversity and ensure that biodiversity is on the path to recovery by 2030, so as to fully meet the 2050 vision of living in harmony with nature.

14:51, 10-15, 2021
Say No to Illegal Wildlife Trade

With the ecological civilization highlighted at the ongoing 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity, animal protection has drawn a lot of attention from attendees.

16:17, 10-13, 2021
Pooling Strength to Build a Community of All Life on Earth

Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech via video link at the Leaders’ Summit of the 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) on October 12, 2021. His call for “building a community of all life on Earth” has struck a resonating chord with the international community. On the sidelines of the COP15, China Today interviewed Dr. Elia G. Kaiyamo, Namibian ambassador to China.

16:09, 10-13, 2021
Ecological Civilization Shapes the Future of China and ASEAN Countries

China’s State Council Information Office released the white paper Biodiversity Conservation in China on October 8, 2021 to introduce the actions China has taken on biodiversity conservation and the achievements it has made in the sector. According to the white paper, China is forming a new pattern of biodiversity conservation by preserving biodiversity with creative and up-to-date measures.

10:53, 10-11, 2021
Preserving Biodiversity, an Urgent Demanding Task

The chit chat at family dinner a couple of years ago turned political when we began discussing the best alternatives for my home country’s development. I argued, on a self-sufficient line, that protecting and managing our biodiversity instead of relying on fossil fuels — as we had for decades — was Colombia’s best possible strategy. To me, in view of our enviable competitive advantage of hosting around 10 percent of the world’s biodiversity, this made irrefutable sense.

13:57, 10-09, 2021
Preserving Biodiversity, an Urgent Demanding Task

The chit chat at family dinner a couple of years ago turned political when we began discussing the best alternatives for my home country’s development. I argued, on a self-sufficient line, that protecting and managing our biodiversity instead of relying on fossil fuels — as we had for decades — was Colombia’s best possible strategy. To me, in view of our enviable competitive advantage of hosting around 10 percent of the world’s biodiversity, this made irrefutable sense.

13:38, 09-26, 2021
BRI Nexus Promoting Multilateralism in a Post-Pandemic World

Born of centuries-long interactions between China and other civilizations along the ancient Silk Road, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) appears as the quintessential manifestation of multilateralism on the world stage since the Second World War which was, sad to say, one of quite a different kind.

09:30, 08-11, 2021
A Similar History Has United Us — Interview with Carlos Miguel Pereira, Ambassador of Cuba to China

The only country in Latin America with a ruling communist party is Cuba. During the following conversation with China Today, the ambassador of the Republic of Cuba to China, Carlos Miguel Pereira, expressed his congratulations regarding the first centenary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and also highlights the value that the socialist path has had in both countries in overcoming major challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic and extreme poverty.

12:19, 07-27, 2021
The Goal Is to Join the Belt and Road — Interview with Luis Diego Monsalve, Colombian Ambassador to China

On April 12, a new batch of 500,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine developed by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac arrived in Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia. On March 20, following the arrival of a prior batch of vaccines, Chinese President Xi Jinping addressed the Colombian people in a video message, which is taken as a special gesture.

12:28, 06-23, 2021
The Leaders Summit on Climate: A Munich Moment or Global Action at Long Last?

On April 22 and 23, the Biden administration invited 40 world leaders to a virtual climate summit with the hope that other countries would follow the American example of announcing new and expanded commitments to achieving net global carbon neutrality by 2050. But while all of the right elements seemed to be aligned, including planning the opening day of the virtual conference to coincide with the Earth Day, the results of the summit were mixed.

15:02, 05-27, 2021
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