?Taiwan regional leader Lai Ching-te once again exposed his highly provocative nature as he went even further in peddling his separatist fallacy of "Taiwan independence." Yet all his patchwork narrative is illogical and absurd.
China's high-quality development means increased opportunities for the rest of the world. With China opening its door wider, foreign companies will get more opportunities in China's huge market.
While allowing overseas-issued credit cards like MasterCard and Visa to be used for payment may not seem revolutionary at first glance, it signals a broader shift in Beijing's—and, by extension, China's—openness to the world.
Most importantly this transformation of China into a giant, middle-income country, has changed hundreds of millions of lives for the better and that has been achieved peacefully and through interdependence with the rest of the world.
China's visa-free entry policy is a masterstroke in international relations and an innovative and traveler-friendly way of boosting the tourism sector, as well as expanding people-to-people exchanges and improving mutual understanding.
Portraying China's manufacturing capacity as a global risk, this narrative is a variant of the "China threat" rhetoric, with its toxic seed germinating in the hotbed of the West's anxiety, or probably fear, due to China's manufacturing rise.
Over the past 75 years, New China has made remarkable progress that not only benefits the Chinese people but also creates opportunities for the global community.
By always pointing the finger at China or resorting to trade protectionism and tech isolationism, politicians in Washington are not helping, but making things worse.
The constantly growing economic cooperation between China and the ASEAN is set to further stabilize and inject vitality into the volatile global economy challenged by protectionism and deglobalization.