By Orçun Göktürk, Beijing, China For the average person living in the West, Chinese politics seems complicated because Chinese democracy is judged according to Western stereotypes. But China’s top legislative organs, the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), hold their annual meetings in Beijing after the Chinese New Year, symbolizing China’s whole-process ‘people’s democracy’. ...
A record was broken for the most films watched during China’s Spring Festival. In the history of domestic film, it was the most grossing Chinese New Year holiday ever. The Chinese Film Administration said that 163 million tickets were sold throughout the holiday week of 10 February to Saturday 17 February, grossing 8.02 billion yuan ($ 1.12 billion). It revealed ...
This article can be considered as an evaluation of the 44 years from January 24, 1980, to January 24, 2024, from two poles. One pole is Türkiye, situated at the western end of Asia, and the other is the People’s Republic of China, guarding the eastern end of Asia. Our fate, on the ominous January 24th of 1980, bestowed upon ...
The triumphant Chinese revolution in 1949 introduced new variables for the construction of its own thought. Before, the philosophy of the country had emerged from the 6th and 5th centuries BC, with It’s main but not only exponents in Confucius and Laozi. Since 1949, China’s long history is full of innovative research and opinions in search of wisdom, the value ...
Mao Zedong was recognized with heartfelt fondness and respect on the 130th anniversary of his birth in China, developing countries, and scientific socialist parties. The following is an explanation for this interest. Mao Zedong was a great revolutionary who brought Marxism, founded by Marx and Engels, and developed by Lenin, into the 21st century and led the transformation of the ...
By Orçun Göktürk, President of the Turkish-Chinese Belt and Road Institute The 3rd Belt and Road Forum ended last Wednesday. During the two-day forum, Chinese President Xi Jinping described the Belt and Road Initiative as ‘part of a great struggle against colonialism and development injustice’. The Belt and Road, which is also described as the largest such initiative in human ...
By Orçun Göktürk / President of the Turkish-Chinese Belt and Road Institute Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping ahead of the opening of the 19th Asian Games. Apart from a visit to Moscow, this is Assad’s first trip outside West Asia since the imperialist intervention in Syria in 2011. Almost 20 years after his visit in ...
My speech at the presentation of the Chinese edition of my book “China in the 21st century. The Awakening of a Giant”, held in Beijing on July 31, 2023: Interestingly, my first contact to China, when I was still a child, was through books. I never knew why, I never asked my father how he got children’s books about China ...
Last Thursday I had to get up very early. I was supposed to be at the Shanghai Hongqiao train station at 6:30 a.m. to travel to Beijing. A light breakfast with wonton soup (Chinese dumplings) in a small restaurant in the station provided the necessary energy to start the transfer. The fast train was waiting to make the trip. Four ...
I am writing from Shanghai where I arrived last Sunday. The heat in the streets of this city of 24.7 million inhabitants is overwhelming. Shanghai is located in the eastern region of China. It is a river city located 20 km from the sea in the Yangtze River Delta, the largest in China and one of the longest in the ...