Challenging Credit Dominance

Europe's widening sovereign debt crisis has brought independent credit ratings to the forefront of the EU's agenda.To directly address the mat ter,the EU announced plans to set up a European creditrating authority for sovereign debt ratings on April 30.This marked a milestone in the international credit history,and the beginning of changes to U.S.-dominated international credit ratings and the pattern of international politics and economics,said Sun Zhe,Director of the Center for U.S.     

Cooperation and a Harmonious World： Advances for the Human Rights

It is an important challenge to out-line some comments on the theme of international cooperation and, in the extent of the construction of a more harmonious world, the poten-tial interactions of both government and civil society, at a national and international level, making ways for advances in the area of human rights.     

Saving Tomorrow at the Durban Conference

Countries meeting in Durban, South Africa, delivered a breakthrough with promises of real action by the international community to reduce the impact of climate change. Delegations recognized the urgent need to raise collective efforts in reducing greenhouse gas emissions to prevent average global temperatures from rising by more than two degrees Celsius. The Durban talks ended on a high point with a roadmap toward an international climate accord that included all of the world’s major carbon emitters for the first time. This accord is to be finalized by 2015 and will take effect from 2020.     

Building Peaceful Borders

China's efforts to build a harmonious world begin with establishing peaceful borders with its neighbors China's recent contribution to the world of international relations is the promotion of "building a harmonious world together," put forward by President Hu Jintao at the 60th anniversary of the UN in September 2005. As the core of the country's peaceful foreign policy in the new era, this approach has been well received and widely discussed in the international community. Meanwhile, Chinese foreign policy has always adhered to the strategic guidelines of     

Reforming the International Order

正The accusation that China is seeking to overhaul the current international order is often lobbied by Western nations in their attempts at provocation and containment.But is China really fomenting such a change?The remarks of Chinese President Xi Jinping on numerous international occasions suggest not.China is in fact a beneficiary of the current international system,and the process of reform and opening up continues to adapt China’s domestic conditions to better fit this global     

International Human Rights Mechanism and Construction of Harmonious Human Rights Relations

The international human rights mechanism is a product of the pursuit for peace and justice of the human society.As the core values of the internation- al human rights mechanism,the universal human rights standards provide the international community with a basic path of human rights development in different countries.In recent years a limited few of countries have utilized the universal human rights standards to promote their own strategic wills,and interfere in the     

A Tumultuous Year

<正>2011 sees international order in transition amid chaos While the global financial crisis continued to take a toll on societies and politics globally 2011 has been a year of relentless turmoil and chaos. What underlies these waves of turmoil is the labor pains of the birth of a new international order.     

China’s FDI on the Go

CHINA has been a recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI)for some time, starting when the country embarked on reforms and opened-up in the late 1970s.Inflows of FDI were US $1.956 billion in 1985 and by last year had risen to a staggering US $111.716 billion, with an annual increase of 15.54 percent. During     

A Turning Point?

Russia’s new proposal on the Syrian crisis raises hope amid the uncertainty U.S.President Barack Obama’s embrace of the Russian suggestion to put Syrian chemical weapons under international control has brought a temporary sense of relief to the international community.The seemingly     

Keeping the Peace

At present, the international security situation has become more complicated, while the process of international arms control and disarmament remains at a standstill. Li Changhe, a senior advisor of the China Arms Control and Disarmament Association and a former ambassador of disarmament affairs, recently spoke to Beijing Review reporter Chen Ran in an exclusive     

Memorial Day Set to Honor Victims and Remember History

ON February 27, 2014 the Standing Committee of the National People＇s Congress passed a decision on a memo-rial day to honor victims of the Nanjing Massacre. The move is in response to a strong call from the Chinese people for a national salute to the victims and is also in line with international norms. The memorial day, as remembrance of a hor- rifle episode in China＇s history, is bound to have a global impact.     

Joining Forces

The Chinese and U.S. navies are bound to work together for the common good of the international community Sino-U.S. military relations recently received another boost. The Japan-Ibased U.S. destroyer USS Fitzgerald joined Chinese and foreign naval vessels in a grand international fleet review to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Navy of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in the coastal city of Qingdao     

China Rightto Set Lower Growth Target

THE reduction of China’s 2012 growth target to 7.5 percent from the eight percent of recent years headlined the international media coverage of PremierWen Jiabao’s report to the National People’s Congress. The announcement was greeted with fallson international stock markets - simultaneously reflecting China’s economic weight and a misanalysis by international markets. But the lowered target,which is justified by the global economic situation,is only the tip of the iceberg of complex short- and long-term challenges China is facing in its economic policy.     

Exchange and Communication Creates Value ——Notes on China＇s nationalities hiaher-education and culture deleaation＇s trip to the USA

order to further strengthen international cultural exchanges and promote international cooperation in the field of higher education for China＇s ethnic groups, a delegation of six colleges and universities led by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission （SEAC） visited the United States at the end of April to hold a series of educational and cultural activities,     

Localizing the International Human Right to Education in China: A Spatial Inquiry into the Usefulness of Human Rights in Cyberspace

Debates concerning the relationship between human rights and cyberspace(specifically, the internet)) have recently become fashionable in various disciplines but most of the analysis has paid scant attention to the spatial attribute of cyberspace. In this paper, I outline a framework for a spatial inquiry into the usefulness of human rights in cyberspace, relying heavily on the emerging ‘spatial turn' in law as well as the continual intellectual redirection toward a locally-focused approach to human rights. To answer the question of whether cyberspace is useful for improving the effectiveness of international human rights law everywhere, I begin by clarifying the significance of the spatiality of human rights from a geographic perspective, and then provide an analysis of the relationship between human rights and cyberspace. Human rights, I argue, are inherently geographic, and are spatially embodied in cyberspace. Accordingly, I try to explore the local relevance of cyberspace in contributing to the investigation of the effectiveness of international human rights law at local sites by an empirical endeavor to emphasize the right to education in China.     

China＇s Policies and Actions to Address Climate Change

GLOBAL warming is the main feature of climate change. Climate change is related to human survival and the well-being of all countries and as such poses a great challenge to mankind in the 21 st century. Joint efforts by the international community are needed to deal with it. A large developing country with a huge population, complex climatic conditions and a fragile ecological environment, China is most vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change.     

Rebuilding Global Consensus

The world needs to uphold multilateralism,reinvigorate global governance and promote common prosperity As one of the most influential international forums,the World Economic Forum(WEF)has often been a bellwether for world economic development and global cooperation.As the curtain goes up on the WEF Annual Meeting 2020 in Davos,Switzerland,under the theme of Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World,the meeting will again bring together international elites to discuss approaches to common prosperity on January 21-24.     

Analysis and Commentary：＂ Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence＂

On May 11,2011,13 members of the Council of Europe signed a legally binding international instrument, the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence, as part of a program to protect and aid women. The Convention aims to increase     

Human Rights： Dialogue and International Cooperation

Dialogue is a major form of international cooperation on human rights issues. It is also instrumental in settling human rights dis-putes between nations. In this age of globalization, exten-sive global dialogues on human rights serve to deepen mutual understanding between nations, speed up the formation of international norms governing human rights, and hasten the advent of a harmonious world.     

SOCIETY

正A Global Mission Touching on a series of topics related to eco-civilization,the Eco Forum Global Annual Conference was held in Guiyang,capital of southwest China’s Guizhou Province,from July 6 to 8.Under the theme of Embracing a New Era of Eco-Civilization:Green Development with High Priority to Ecology,the forum sent a signal to the world that eco-civilization matters to all of humankind and thus international cooperation is