AMB WU’S ADDRESS MARKING CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS
“Good afternoon! I wish to extend a warm welcome to all of you to the Embassy’s Happy Chinese New Year Reception 2026. The Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival of the Chinese nation. It symbolizes renewal, reunion, and prosperity. It also embodies the aspirations and pursuit for family harmony and prosperity as well […]
MINISTER TAU SIGNS FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT ON ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP FOR SHARED PROSPERITY (CAEPA)
Minister Parks Tau and his counterpart from the People’s Republic of China, Minister Wang Wentao, have signed the Framework Agreement on Economic Partnership for Shared Prosperity. This landmark agreement will be followed by negotiation and conclusion of an Early Harvest Agreement by end of March 2026, which will then see China provide duty-free access to […]
NUCLEAR DOOMSDAY OR A NEW SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT ARCHITECTURE?
The New START treaty—the last remaining nuclear arms agreement between the world’s two largest nuclear superpowers—has expired as of today. Russian President Putin’s offer to the United States to adhere to the treaty’s limitations for one year met with no official response from the U.S.—a non-answer answer. “Given the fact that the world is already […]
CHINA’S IMPRESSIVE “BYD” LAUNCHES BIGGEST STORE IN SOUTH AFRICA
Build Your Dreams, better-known as BYD – the famous Chinese automobile brand – has launched in South Africa’s financial capital, Sandton, in Johannesburg. Attended by a select group of key stakeholders, the new 4S dealership was buzzing with excitement over an array of exquisite high-tech vehicles that lay displayed on the magnificent shop floor in […]
DEPUTY MINISTER NOMUSA DUBE-NCUBE ADDRESSES THE 2025/26 GRADUATES OF THE DHET-CHINA TVET INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME
“I would like to begin by congratulating the students, each and every one of you, for representing not only yourselves or your institutions, but the Republic of South Africa at large. By choosing to answer the call to study in China and successfully completing your programmes, you accepted a challenge that required discipline, adaptability, and […]
WILL THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE PREVAIL?
The spectacle that was President Donald Trump’s speech to the Davos World Economic Forum on Wednesday, January 21, presented an alarming picture of the state of mind of a U.S. Presidency ruled by the Beast-Man ideology of Joseph de Maistre, the inhuman belief that rule by terror and coercion, the Thrasymachan “might makes right,” must govern human […]
THE IMPERATIVE OF THE VISIT OF CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER WANG YI TO ETHIOPIA: REAFFIRMING THE “ALL-WEATHER STRATEGIC PARNERSHIP”
From January 7 to January 9, Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit to Ethiopia in 2026, undertaken as part of the long-standing tradition of Chinese foreign ministers making Africa their first destination of the New Year, is significant both in its timing and substance. For the past 36 years, China has consistently prioritized Africa in this […]
THE MORAL COURAGE TO BE SOVEREIGN AND GOOD
At a moment which Helga Zepp-LaRouche characterized as “clearly spinning out of control,” the question of whether humanity can muster the moral fitness to survive hangs over all our heads. If the answer is yes, it will be because the principles of sovereignty and international law will have won out over the frantic fantasies of […]
CHINA POSTS RECORD TRADE IN 2025 AS PRIVATE FIRMS LEAD GROWTH
China’s foreign trade hit a record high in 2025, supported by a more diversified market structure and resilient private enterprises, official data showed on Wednesday. According to the General Administration of Customs, China‘s total goods trade—including imports and exports—reached 45.47 trillion yuan ($6.35 trillion) last year, up 3.8 percent from a year earlier. Exports rose 6.1 percent to […]
PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A THREAT TO WORLD PEACE
Amidst a week of great turmoil in geopolitics, the US Senate voted 52-47 to advancea war powers resolution aimed at limiting theuse of armed forces against Venezuela. The vote followed concerns that President Donald Trump did not seek congressional approval prior to his military attack on Venezuela. Trump had ramped up his discomforting rhetoric with […]
TIME’S FRIEND – IN THE AI ERA, BE THAT ‘INCURABLE OPTIMIST’
Below is Luo Zhenyu‘s 2026 New Year’s Eve Speech: “Against the sweeping tide of artificial intelligence, Luo Zhenyu, founder of Dedao, an independent media platform and online community providing new knowledge and insights in history and business, delivered his 2026 New Year’s Eve Speech: Time’s Friend on Wednesday evening, urging individuals and organizations to embrace […]
US SUFFERS CHINA’S BACKLASH OVER “PROVOCATIVE MOVE” TO ARM TAIWAN
The People’s Republic of China has predictably unleashed a major backlash against the provocative US decision to sell large-scale arms to Taiwan, an inalienable region of China. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced taking countermeasures against 20 US military companies and 10 senior executives who have engaged in arming Taiwan in recent years. […]