" LONDON Cheap Air Max 120 , April 18 (Xinhua) -- A former leader of the Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA) was shot dead on Friday afternoon on a busy street in western Belfast, capital of Northern Ireland, local media reported Friday, citing police sources.
Tommy Crossan, reportedly the CIRA's former leader and a dissident Republican, was attacked in a fatal shooting near the Peter Pan centre in Springfield Road of western Belfast Cheap Air Max 180 , local police was quoted by British Sky News as saying.
Part of the Springfield Road was closed to traffic while local police arrived at the scene to investigate the incident.
Crossan was believed to be the subject of a death threat from his former allies, according to Sky News.
""Serious Crime Branch Detectives launch murder investigation after 43 year old man is shot dead in Springfield Rd area Belfast this afternoon,"" the Police Service Northern Ireland tweeted on Friday night without giving the name of the victim.
""Shame on those who bring death to Belfast streets at Eastertide. They represent no-one but themselves and have no place in our great city,"" Lord Mayor of Belfast Mairtin O Muilleoir said via his personal twitter account.
CIRA has been listed as a main dissident republican group, which rejects the 1998 Belfast Agreement and continues to carry out attacks. It opposes political engagement with the British and Irish governments on any subject other than the establishment of a united Irish republic, according to the British Security Service Cheap Nike Air Max 270 , Britain's national security intelligence agency.
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by Xinhua writer Liu Chang
BEIJING, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- The largest carbon market across the globe opened this week in China, the latest in a series of concrete measures the world's largest developing country has launched in the battle against climate change.
The new program epitomizes China's strong sense of responsibility as a major country in the world, and embodies the philosophy Chinese President Xi Jinping articulated at the beginning of the year in the snow-capped Alpine town of Davos, Switzerland.
In his landmark keynote speech at the World Economic Forum (WEF), Xi shared his vision on how to steer the world economy out of difficulty through concerted effort and urged members of the international community to take on the responsibility of the times.
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RESPONSIBILITY CRISIS
History does not lack crucial moments that call for responsible action from the world's major countries.
In the political sense, the modern world was shaped by Western powers through centuries of brutal and destructive wars as well as struggles for hegemony. Oftentimes, they would pursue their selfish interests in the guise of the "general good."
Edward Hallett Carr, a British political scientist and historian, wrote in his classic book on international relations Cheap Air Max 360 , "The Twenty Years' Crisis," that "this kind of hypocrisy is a special and characteristic peculiarity of the Anglo-Saxon mind."
A telling example in recent history is the Iraq War. To guarantee its strategic presence in the region, the United States went to war in Iraq based on just one piece of fabricated intelligence and a false promise to liberate the country from tyranny.
Today, 14 years after the start of the war, Iraq still suffers crises on multiple fronts, and the peace prospects in the wider Middle East could not be darker.
The past year has also witnessed how a "go-it-alone" superpower can haunt the rest of the international community. In less than a year in office Cheap Air Max 720 , U.S. President Donald Trump has cut Washington loose from one key international treaty after another.
Chanting the "America First" slogan, he has accused many -- if not all -- of his country's trading partners of taking advantage of the United States, and threatened to renegotiate for what he calls "fairer" deals.
Such a doctrine of unilateralism has given rise to widespread worries at a time when multilateralism is needed to accommodate the deeply intertwined interests of all nations.
A SHARED VISION
Xi's Davos speech, in which he rooted for free trade, an open economy and globalization, sketches out his multilateralism-based approach to invigorating global growth Cheap Nike Air Max 90 , and stems from his vision of building a community with a shared future for mankind.
Even since he first expounded the overarching idea to the world in 2013 in a speech at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, he has gradually fleshed it out over the years.
"Our world is full of hope and challenges. ... No country can address alone the many challenges facing mankind; no country can afford to retreat into self-isolation," Xi said in his momentous report to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in October.
In this era of growing challenges and risks, like climate change, ravaging terrorism, and rising trade protectionism Cheap Air Max 90 , Xi's proposition charts a clear and viable course forward.
"We have a shared destiny. ... We have to develop our own policy based on common shared interests. That will be a good starting point," said Gerhard Stahl, a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium.
In Xi's view, a community with a shared future for humankind should feature mutual respect, diversity and dialogue based on equality and peaceful co-existence among different civilizations Cheap Air Max 93 , and the world order should be decided not by one country or a few, but by broad international consensus.