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HARMONY of DIVERSE FREQUENCIES Politics May Divide but People-To-People Bonds Unite OPINION: COVID-19 ORIGIN-TRACING MUST BE FAIR P.26 | CULTURE: SHIELD FOR HERITAGE P.44 VOL.64 NO.14 APRIL 8, 2021 WWW.BJREVIEW.COM HARMONY OF DIVERSE FREQUENCIES Politics may divide but people-to-people bonds unite RMB6.00 USD1.70 AUD3.00 GBP1.20 CAD2.60 CHF2.60 JPY188 邮发代号2-922·国内统一刊号：CN11-1576/G2 CONTENTS EDITOR’S DESK OPINION FEATURES 02 The Power of Ping-Pong 26 COVID-19 Origin-Tracing 30 Legislative Changes Diplomacy Should Be About Science, Hong Kong Basic Law annexes amended Not Politics 32 Curtains of Cotton THIS WEEK Joint WHO-China study debunks Western allegations Accusations of forced labor in Xinjiang rebutted COVER STORY 27 Anti-Asian Hate Did Not Begin 36 Counting the Benefits 12 The Ping Is Still Heard With Trump China steps up preparations for RCEP The little ball’s role in bringing Community fights back after 38 Grow With the Snow the big ball together Atlanta killings Beijing 2022 nurtures new skills 18 Our Shared Cultural 28 An International Platform 40 Survival of the Fittest Legacy Of Consumption How a unique publishing project Online teaching needs to restrategize post-COVID-19 New expo in Hainan to promote united China-U.S. culturati opening up CULTURE 22 Filling the Language Gap 44 Invincible Against Time and Tide An American teacher’s perceptions in China Technology boosts preservation of cultural heritage 23 Respecting Differences 46 Fly Me to the Moon A Chinese student’s experiences Space program explained in the U.S. FORUM 48 What Role Can an Individual Pension System Play? Cover Design: Wang Yajuan ©2021 Beijing Review, all rights reserved. www.bjreview.com Follow us on MEDIA PARTNER BREAKING NEWS » SCAN ME » Using a QR code reader Please recycle EDITOR’S DESK A News Weekly Magazine The Power of Ping-Pong Diplomacy Published Since 1958 Fifty years ago, when the People’s coexistence of two different frequencies, it Republic of China (PRC) and the United will contribute to the development of global President: Li Yafang Associate Editor in Chief: Li Jianguo States had not yet established diplomatic civilizations and human welfare. Associate President: Yan Ying relations but were keen to do so, a tiny However, the United States began to Executive Editor: Yan Wei table tennis ball created the first friendly regard China’s rise on the global stage as a Associate Executive Editors: Zan Jifang, Liu Yunyun, Ding Ying people-to-people link since the founding challenge. Unfounded accusations and ef- Production Director: Yao Bin Editorial Administrators: Zeng Wenhui, Hou Beibei of the PRC in 1949. forts to suppress China and maintain U.S. Assistant Executive Editor: Li Fangfang Fifteen Americans, including nine hegemony have strained China-U.S. rela- Commentator: Lan Xinzhen Editors: Wang Hairong, Li Nan players and officials, as well as a team tions and the 50-year relationship is now Editorial Consultants: Sudeshna Sarkar, Madhusudan Chaubey of journalists from the United States, ar- going through a dark phase. Reporters: Tang Yuankai, Wang Jun, Pan Xiaoqiao, Yuan Yuan, Ji Jing, Lu Yan, Wen Qing, Li Qing, Li Xiaoyang, Ma Miaomiao, rived in China in April 1971 to take part It’s therefore a good time to recall the Zhang Shasha, Tao Xing, Tao Zihui in exhibition matches, opening the door spirit of ping-pong diplomacy once again. Visual Director: Pamela Tobey Photo Editor: Wang Xiang to friendly exchanges between the two An important achievement of the Photographer: Wei Yao major powers in the eastern and western ping-pong diplomacy is that it created a Art: Li Shigong Design Director: Wang Yajuan hemispheres. successful model of promoting exchanges Chief Designer: Cui Xiaodong It also paved the way for then U.S. and reconciliation between nations through Designer: Zhao Boyu Proofreading: Ma Xin President Richard Nixon’s visit to China in friendship between their people. Despite Human Resources: Zhang Yajie 1972, followed by the establishment of for- some deterioration, the China-U.S. relation- Legal Counsel: Yue Cheng mal diplomatic ties between the PRC and ship is still much better than what it was North America Bureau the United States seven years later. five decades ago, and their citizens are bet- Chief: Yu Shujun Tel/Fax: 1-201-792-0334 Since then, frequent trade, culture, ter placed today to be friends. E-mail: [email protected] education and people-to-people exchanges Though a handful of U.S. politicians Africa Bureau Chief Correspondent: Ni Yanshuo have forged a community across the Pacific have been clamoring for the decoupling Tel: 27-71-6132053 that has shared win-win cooperation and of the two economies, the vast majority of E-mail: [email protected] mutual benefits. Chinese and Americans do not agree with General Editorial Office Tel: 86-10-68996252 Occasional friction is inevitable when them. It is also not feasible in today’s age Fax: 86-10-68326628 two countries have different systems, values of globalization, when all economies are English Edition Tel: 86-10-68996250 and histories. But what is more important deeply intertwined. Advertising Department is to seek common ground while reserving The wheel of history cannot be re- Tel: 86-10-68995807 E-mail: [email protected] or respecting differences to conduct state- versed. 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The world’s most sensitive radio telescope will have its observation time partially available to global scientists from August 1 onward, with online reservations having started on March 31, according to the National Astronomical Observatories of China. After the collapse of the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico last December, FAST is now the leading radio telescope in the world. Located in a naturally deep and round karst depression in southwest China, it came into operation on January 11, 2020, and has since identified over 300 pulsars. http://www.bjreview.com APRIL 8, 2021 BEIJING REVIEW 3 THIS WEEK SOCIETY XINHUA The project will col- laborate with the United Nations Environment Program and the Alliance of International Science Organization in establishing a database for dryland ecosystem management. Crime Crackdown China has achieved significant results in its national crackdown on gang-related crime, with more than 3,600 mafia-like groups arrested over the past three years, 1.3 times the total of arrests made in the previous decade, Xinhua News Agency reported on March 28. Additionally, a further 89,742 cases involving gang crime-related corruption and “protective umbrellas” that shield gangs were handled nationwide, according to official statistics. In the past three years, New Journey Chinese courts have concluded A cargo train is ready to leave Changsha, Hunan Province, for Hanoi, the capital of Viet Nam, on March 31. 32,943 gang-related first instance On that day, a new freight train service linking Hunan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations was cases, involving more than launched. 220,000 suspects. A total of 53,405 defendants in connected cases were given sentences ranging from no less than five- year imprisonment to the death ramp up the country’s capacity management of global arid penalty. TCM Center for rapid response, prevention, areas. China plans to build a major Ever since China first control, and treatment in the face Fu Bojie, chief scientist of the launched its campaign targeting center at the national level project and academician at the of new or emerging infectious gang crime in 2018, the country focusing on the use of traditional CAS, said there is a lack of long- diseases and other major public has strived to fight this type of Chinese medicine (TCM) in epi- term monitoring data for dryland health events by applying TCM, crime through a series of actions, demic prevention and treatment, areas, especially those located in Sun said. including but not limited to the sources with the top economic some developing countries.
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