Chinese coastal cities have continued to issue warnings for the strong gales and heavy rains triggered by Trami, this year's 20th typhoon, suspending some public transportation. Meteorological monitoring shows that Typhoon Trami has moved into the South China Sea on Friday. Affected by cold air and the typhoon, the coastal areas of Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces and the Taiwan Island experienced gusts with heavy rains in some places.
The tropical cyclone is forecast to keep moving westwards and slightly increase its intensity on Saturday to reach typhoon level.
On the night of Sunday, Trami will begin to reduce movement in the central and western parts of the South China Sea, and its intensity will gradually weaken.
The National Meteorological Center issued another yellow-alert gale warning on Saturday, saying that some parts of Zhejiang, Fujian and Hainan will experience torrential downpours from Saturday to Tuesday.
China has a four-tier, color-coded weather warning system, with red representing the most severe warning, followed by orange, yellow and blue.
In addition, Trami's long-time activity in the South China Sea is expected to cause strong winds on the waters until early November. Weather experts have warned the public and ships and offshore work platforms to take precautions for the expected heavy rains in the eastern coastal areas of China and Hainan Island on Saturday and Sunday.
The Hainan Meteorological Observatory continued to issue a Level-IV typhoon warning on Saturday morning.
Due to the persistent gales and strong rainstorms in some parts of the island, the Xinhai ferry port, Xiuying cargo port and the Nangang Railway Station in Haikou, the capital city of Hainan, have suspended service at 14:00 on Saturday.
The whole island-looping high-speed railway and the trains running in Haikou will also suspend operation successively. They are scheduled to resume service at 14:00 on Sunday.
Guangdong Province activated a Level-IV response to the strong winds brought by Trami and the cold front at 12:00 Friday.
The ro-ro (roll-on-roll-off) passenger ships crossing the Qiongzhou Strait have stopped operation, and the resumption time will be decided according to the typhoon changes.
The Guangzhou Railway Group has adjusted some of the trains departing from or arriving at Haikou to Guangzhou Baiyun Station, and stopped some other trains.
Guangdong, Hainan issue warnings on Typhoon Trami's westward movements
Chinese President Xi Jinping's New Year message delivered on the New Year Eve has drawn positive responses from scholars and former officials from several countries, who say that the series of global initiatives proposed by Xi have provided fresh momentum for multilateralism and shared development at a time of growing uncertainty.
While the reactions touched on the broader vision outlined in Xi's New Year message, they also focused on the initiatives Xi has put forward over recent years, particularly the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative and the newly proposed Global Governance Initiative.
Highlighting the significant importance of these initiatives, they have emphasized the need for equality, inclusiveness and a fairer international order.
"We need a more just international order and a truly multilateral system. China stands almost alone today as a global force actively advancing genuine multilateralism. Therefore, these initiatives are most welcome," said Michael Schumann, chairman of the German Federal Association for Economic Development and Foreign Trade.
Former Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab has placed the emphasis on dialogue and trust-building between civilizations.
"It is essential now more than ever to promote communication and understanding between China and the world to enhance cultural exchanges and build mutual trust. As President Xi has repeatedly emphasized, China supports principles of unity, inclusiveness and peacefulness. These values should guide our collective efforts to build bridges rather than walls," he said.
From a governance perspective, Russian scholar Ekaterina Zaklyazminskaya, head of the Center for World Politics and Strategic Analysis at the Institute of China and Modern Asia under the Russian Academy of Sciences, has viewed the Global Governance Initiative as a structured response to global challenges.
"The recently proposed Global Governance Initiative presents a comprehensive framework of ideas. It prioritizes establishing a more just international order, champions multilateralism, and upholds the principle of 'people first.' Through its concrete practices, financial assistance, and tangible support for multilateral bodies like the U.N., China has demonstrated that its commitments are substantive. China is taking tangible steps toward a fairer and more reasonable global governance system," she said.
Scholars from the Global South also have seen historical echoes in the initiatives.
"Some of the developed and developing countries have highly welcomed the Global Development Initiative, because this initiative emphasizes the need for partnerships -- partnerships that commit resources to end global poverty and pursue common and shared development. The Global Governance Initiative, in my view, echoes again the call that was made by Asian [and] African countries at the Bandung Conference in 1955 for equality, for mutual respect, for respect of territorial integrity, [and] for respect of sovereignty," said Bongani Maimele, director of international relations at South Africa's National School of Government.
"These initiatives are revolutionary in nature. They are reshaping the political philosophy of global governance. Today's world is far more complex than it was 80 years ago, and interdependence among nations has deepened. Therefore, we need new philosophical perspectives to examine our world and new models of engagement to foster a new type of international relations," said Sheradil Baktygulov, director of Kyrgyzstan's Institute of World Policy.
Int'l scholars praise Xi's initiatives, call for stronger multilateralism
