I would like tentatively to share the contents of the article carried in the People's Daily Online dated April 28.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said recently that the Ukraine crisis could plunge more than one fifth of humanity, or up to 1.7 billion people, into poverty and hunger.
The U.S.-led NATO can’t absolve itself of responsibility in opening the “Pandora’s box” in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. In a discussion he had with the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in early 1990s, then U.S. Secretary of State James Baker gave the “not one inch eastward”assurance about NATO expansion. However, the U.S.-led NATO broke this promise, engaging in a five-round eastward expansion of more than 1,000 kilometers toward the Russian border and increasing the number of its members from 16 to 30, pushing Russia into a corner with each step.
