摘要
WHILE updates about midterm elections in the United States dominate headlines across Western media outlets,ironically the coverage of the big international event,the fifth China International Import Expo(CIIE),which attracted over 2,800 companies from 127 countries,including 284 from the Fortune Global 500,is missing in the Western world.To ride out the hard times of faltering economic recovery,rising inflation,and harrowing food and energy crises,the world needs true multilateralism as well as platforms for cooperation and exchanges,instead of political games and ideological confrontation.And the CIIE is one such platform.