Chinese navy uses professional means to deal with Australian vessels encounter

06:48, April 21, 2018

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  Crossing Beijing’s red line comes at a real price

  (Illustration: Global Times)Tensions have been escalating in the Taiwan Straits. The US passed the Taiwan Travel Act that allows reciprocal visits of high-level officials between Taiwan and the US, challenging the one-China policy. If US President Donald Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, visits Taiwan in June or a US navy vessel visits a Taiwanese naval base, that will destroy

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  Specialists to weigh in on professional cases in prosecution

  The Supreme People's Procuratorate has issued a decree authorizing procuratorial organs to designate or invite specialists to help in solving cases.According to the regulation, specialists are defined as people with professional knowledge, competence, experience or expertise in a certain field. They can assist in addressing particular problems or make suggestions, but excludes people serving as judicial appraisers.For example, a specialist

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  Will US be able to deal with next financial crisis?

  (Illustration: Global Times)Later this century, when economic historians compare the "Great Recession" that started in 2007 with the Great Depression that started in 1929, they will arrive at two basic conclusions.First, they will say the immediate response of the US Federal Reserve and the Department of the Treasury to the crisis in 2007 was first-rate, whereas the response immediately after