The Chinese government’s reluctance to unveil a massive stimulus package despite the ongoing economic slowdown has puzzled foreign observers and the Chinese public alike. One possible explanation for the Chinese leadership’s cautious approach could be the huge debt overhang fro...

As China's most economically dynamic region, the Yangtze River Delta contributes strongly to the country's modernization under the national strategy for integrated development in the region. CGTN's Chen Yilin explores its major achievements over the past five years.

We are at a historic moment. Until very recently, modernity was virtually synonymous with the West. Indeed, the West believed - and still does - that there was only one form of modernity and that was Western modernity. There was just one path: modernization was a process of weste...

The Wilsonian peace thesis grounded in Kantian ‘perpetual peace’ could not end wars and armed conflicts due to institutional and operational lacuna that the world leadership overlooked owing to divergent interests. Hence, the complexities of political economy in the aftermath o...

Amid the mounting concerns of the United States and its allies over China's rise, the security situation in East Asia is becoming more volatile.