While India was still reeling from the deadly train crashes that killed nearly 300 people on Friday, a bridge that is under construction over the Ganga river collapsed on Sunday. Although no casualties has been reported, the incident once again ...
Marking the 45th anniversary of the signing of the China-Japan Treaty of Peace and Friendship, people-to-people exchanges between the two countries have begun to resume rapidly in a post-pandemic era, while at the same time Tokyo is becoming increasingly aggressive ...
Ahead of the scheduled seventh China-Germany inter-governmental consultation, both Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, and Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang met with ...
Two aggressive external powers, the US and its ally Japan, are accelerating their moves to step into the South China Sea with their latest announcement of a trilateral maritime exercise with the Philippines on Thursday, the first such maneuver among ...
Senior Chinese demographers have called for local governments to strengthen their policies on supporting families, even if they only have one child, to boost fertility rates, as some local regions focused their policies on rewarding families with two or three ...
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities' hope of being invited to the 76th World Health Assembly (WHA) as an observer was squashed again after the assembly started on Sunday in Geneva, Switzerland.
Despite strong opposition at home and abroad, the Japanese government and the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) are set to go ahead with the plan to dump the nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the sea ...
Although Japan suffered a lot from the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in WWII as well as the Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011, the Japanese government has seemingly failed to learn from history and insists on dumping nuclear-contaminated ...
As the scheduled plan to dump the wastewater approaches, Global Times reporters went to Fukushima. In the third and final installment of this field investigation, the Global Times speaks to Japanese people from various fields such as prefectural lawmakers, environmental ...
As the scheduled plan to dump the nuclear-contaminated wastewater from Daiichi plant approaches, Global Times reporters went to Fukushima. In this second installment of this field investigation, the Global Times reveals the helpless fishermen who are speaking out.
As summer approaches, the Global Times reporters went to the Fukushima Prefecture. In this first installment of this field investigation, the Global Times reveals the palpable sense of fear and unease hanging over Fukushima, paired with intense opposition from locals ...
NATO is reportedly planning to open a liaison office in Tokyo, the first of its kind in Asia, which Chinese analysts believe is a dangerous sign that the violent multilateral organization will take its first aggressive step in the Asia-Pacific, ...
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR)'s Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu on Tuesday revealed that the review of district administration has entered its final stage and the District Councils will be retained with a certain electoral component. At same time, ...
Chinese Foreign Ministry has dispatched a working group to Sudan and the first batch of Chinese personnel have been safely evacuated to Sudan's neighboring country, spokesperson Mao Ning said on Monday, as the conflict continues to escalate in capital Khartoum.
China expressed its firm opposition to Japan's practices in following its cliché of smears and accusations against China, playing up the so-called China threat and unreasonably interfering in China's internal affairs, urging Japan to correct its wrong actions and stop ...
Following days of clear and bright weather, some parts of northern China once again are enveloped by sandstorms with the country's desertification monitoring center saying on Monday that the dusty weather originated in Mongolia and continued to move southeast along ...
Cheers among Chinese netizens celebrating that giant panda Ya Ya saw her 20-year lease expire and will soon come back home are paralleled by voices opposing the renewal of the partnership with the Memphis Zoo in the US, which has ...
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Thursday that China welcomes Honduras President Xiomara Castro to visit China at an early date, and stands ready to step up high-level exchanges and advance exchanges and cooperation in various fields, a ...
While stressing that the so-called treated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant still contains radionuclides that are not able to be removed, a renowned Japanese environment economist said in an exclusive interview with the Global Times recently that we ...
A major seminar involving dozens of experts and scholars on democracy and human rights was held on Sunday in Central China, where a consensus was reached that Chinese-style democracy conforms to the national conditions, carries forward the national fine traditional ...
Considering that the impact of the Nord Stream blast has been enormous, and most members of the international community have demanded the truth behind the incident, China supports Russia's draft resolution that calls on the UN to launch an international ...
Analysts called on Beijing to be alert toward Canberra, which could be a double-dealer over its China policy after Australia's defense minister claimed that Australia has "absolutely not" given the US a commitment that it would join its top security ...
It is of great concern for South Korea, Japan and the US on whether the settlement over the forced labor issue between South Korea and Japan could be finally reached and their bilateral ties mended during the upcoming South Korean ...
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Tuesday once again denounced that Japan's unilateral decision to dump nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the sea is trying to shift the risk of nuclear pollution to all mankind, warning the country of not starting the plan ...
Almost all the major media in the US and other countries acclaimed that the landmark agreement between Saudi Arabia and Iran mediated by China to resume ties with an utter lack of US involvement can be regarded as a watershed ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping signed a presidential order appointing Li Qiang as premier on Saturday morning at the first session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), China's national legislature.
With the latest updates of Australia's possible purchases of five US Virgina class nuclear powered submarines being revealed by Western media in advance of the AUKUS meeting in the US, Chinese observers urged Canberra not to blindly follow Washington's strategy ...
With the scheduled Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water dumping project approaching, many countries, organizations and officials concerned in the international community have expressed their deep worries about or firm opposition to Japan's plan, urging the country not to dump the wastewater arbitrarily.
Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang met with his Australian counterpart Penny Wong on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting in New Delhi on Thursday local time, during which Qin said the two sides should cherish the positive momentum ...
"Good bye, Xiang Xiang!" "Thank you, Xiang Xiang!" Hundreds of Japanese fans, some in tears, were waving toward a charter flight flying in the bright sky over Narita International Airport to bid farewell to hugely popular female giant panda Xiang ...
China on Monday released a report on US hegemony and its perils to expose the US' abuse of hegemony in the political, military, economic, financial, technological and cultural fields, by presenting the relevant facts, and to draw greater international attention ...
More figures in the international community have called for an investigation into the explosions at two Russian underwater pipelines carrying natural gas to Europe, which, according to observers, have significantly reduced Europe's energy dependence on Russia and increased US influence ...
Starting from Saturday, the Chinese embassy and consulates in South Korea will resume issuing short-term visas for South Korean citizens to visit China for business, transit and general private affairs, according to the Chinese Embassy in South Korea on Wednesday.
China unveiled its key policy document or "No.1 central document" for 2023 on Monday, vowing to launch a special campaign against problems including exorbitant bride prices and extravagant wedding ceremonies as part of nationwide efforts to strengthen the construction of ...
China unveiled its key policy document or "No. 1 central document" for 2023 on Monday, vowing to launch a special campaign against problems including exorbitant bride prices and extravagant wedding ceremonies as a part of nationwide efforts to strengthen spiritual ...
Following the frenzied interest in ChatGPT, OpenAI's highly regarded chatbot, concerns over academic misconduct by using such AI-enabled tools have arisen. To avoid cheating, some Chinese social sciences journals have released instructions on using artificial intelligence (AI) writing tools, requesting ...
The yearlong Russia-Ukraine conflict that has strengthened and expanded the US' influence and pressure in Europe across several fronts, including space, which could be the main political factor behind Europe spiking a plan to visit the China Space Station, observers ...
Despite louder calls from the public in China's Taiwan region to fully reopen ferry routes between Taiwan's outlying islands of Kinmen and Matsu and the nearby mainland cities, Taiwan authorities continue to allow only limited ferry service, which has sparked ...
With the stabilized COVID-19 situation across the Taiwan Straits, the Chinese mainland has urged the Taiwan authorities to further restore direct flights across the Straits in a bid to better deliver benefits to compatriots, according to a mainland spokesperson on ...
After China reversed its temporary rules in place during the COVID-19 pandemic allowing online courses from overseas universities to be delivered to students within China, Chinese students - especially those enrolled at universities in the Southern Hemisphere - are rushing ...
China firmly opposes discriminatory restrictions by certain countries against travelers from China, and has every reason to take necessary reciprocal measures, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in response to rumors that China could conduct nucleic acid tests on travelers from ...
While urging the international community to create conditions for the resumption of talks between Palestine and Israel, China said it will continue to work hard for a comprehensive, just and lasting settlement of the Palestinian question, the Chinese Foreign Ministry ...
A hi-tech craze has been sweeping China during the Spring Festival holiday (January 21-Friday) with China's homemade sci-fi epic The Wandering Earth II hitting theaters, scoring 2.3 billion yuan ($340 million) at the box office so far, and it has ...
Chinese Consulate-General in San Francisco issued an alert to Chinese nationals to enhance safety awareness to ensure their own safety after a deadly shooting occurred in Half Moon Bay, California leaving 7 people dead & 1 injured, including Chinese nationals.
Are China's vast rural areas ready to cope with the COVID contagion in the exit wave? This question has been frequently asked since China's major change in COVID response strategy and the ongoing Spring Festival travel rush added to those ...
Chinese Ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian presented an upbeat tone over China-Australia ties in a New Year press conference on Tuesday, saying that “the relationship between China and Australia is at a critical stage of turnaround,” suggesting that the two ...
Chinese Foreign Minister to visit five African countries, African Union and the League of Arab States headquarters from Jan 9 to 16
Ahead of a key meeting of the top Party discipline authority, which is scheduled to kick off on Monday, the downfall of three more senior officials and the release of a new documentary featuring the ex-justice minister Fu Zhenghua and ...
Despite being mired in political chaos at home, the Biden administration still desperately wants to maintain its hegemony and assertiveness abroad through its latest move of looking to reopen the US embassy in the Solomon Islands, which experts believed aims ...
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party (PT) was sworn in as president of Brazil for a four-year term - the third time he has held the country's highest office - on Sunday, with a high-level Chinese delegation ...
A much-anticipated draft law on ecological conservation on the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau, draft revision to the Wildlife Protection Law and a draft revision to the Counter-Espionage Law, and three other drafts, are scheduled to be deliberated at the upcoming meeting ...
Japan's foreign minister is reportedly eyeing his first visit to China in about three years, which Chinese observers believe will be a good sign for managing the differences on major and sensitive topics, including the Diaoyu Islands issue and Taiwan ...
China views its ties with Iran from a strategic perspective and will not waver in its determination to develop their comprehensive strategic partnership, said Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua when meeting with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Iran's capital ...
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Tuesday urged Australia to earnestly adhere to the one-China principle, stop all forms of official interactions with the Taiwan region and stop sending wrong signals to "Taiwan independence" forces, in response to the visit ...
The second part of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) - one of the world's most important multilateral biodiversity events - will soon start in Montreal, Canada, with China as chair. The ...
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, instead of expressing explicitly his opposition to a reckless visit made by a bipartisan delegation of Australian politicians to the island of Taiwan, has tried to distance himself from the delegation by stressing the trip ...
A defense hotline between China and Japan is expected to be launched next spring, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi revealed on Tuesday. Chinese observers said the move can avoid escalation of tensions if miscalculation or other frictions happen between the ...
Considering Japan, a country with the pacifist constitution and claims to adhere on the path of peace, is eyeing to further arm itself, there is a big question mark hanging over the country's future whether it would repeat its historic ...
Why do you live here? Over the last decade, Japanese documentary director Ryo Takeuchi has been throwing the question to expats in China and Chinese nationals in Japan. As one of Takeuchi's representative works, The Reason I Live Here, which ...
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has denied he was thinking of reshuffling his cabinet in coming weeks despite plummeting public support over a series of scandals, but Chinese observers believe that the Japanese administration, which has been hyping so-called external ...
Following the first minister-level dialogue on law enforcement and police cooperation between China and Pacific Island countries (PICs) that successfully concluded on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that China, as a responsible major country, has ...
President of Mongolia Ukhnaagiin Khurelsuh will pay a state visit to China from November 27 to 28, which reflects the high-level development of the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, expressing China's ...
China is not interested in Canada's internal affairs, said a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Tuesday, urging Canada to stop making remarks that are detrimental to bilateral ties. The response refuted a recent accusation by Canadian Prime Minister ...
China on Monday issued a white paper on building a community with a shared future in cyberspace, which introduced China's vision of internet development and governance in the new era and its actions, and outlined the prospects for international cooperation. ...
As Japan and the UK are reportedly set to sign a defense pact in December to enhance cooperation with the US under the so-called "Indo-Pacific Strategy" and counter China, Chinese observers warned this could be the first dangerous step to ...
As COVID-19 flares up in several places across China with total daily cases nearing 3,000, many localities, including Central China's Henan and South China's Guangdong, are stepping up efforts to contain the virus and resume work and life as soon ...
In a series of provocative moves on China's red line - the Taiwan question, Japan is reportedly eyeing establishing a new joint command and a new position of commanding officer to oversee its three Self-Defense Force units and better coordinate ...
China's Ministry of National Defense on Thursday urged Japan to honor its political commitments, refrain from interfering in the Taiwan question, and stop playing up the so-called China military threat after the Japanese government was reported to be considering hyping ...
Winter comes, not only bringing cold air across China, but also sparking a new wave of COVID-19 flare-ups in multiple provinces and regions with more than 1,000 new cases reported on Thursday nationwide for a third straight day, which triggered ...
Australia's recent attempts to ramp up its defense spending, including seeking to acquire nuclear submarines through the AUKUS deal, have shown an increasing aggressiveness, Chinese observers said after Australia on Tuesday pledged increased defense spending.
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong will be the first foreign leader to pay an official visit to China by invitation after the conclusion of the 20th National Congress of the Communist ...
China plans to recruit a record number of 37,100 civil servants for the organs of and institutions directly under the central government in the 2023 intake, with this year's recruitment requirements highlighting the construction of grass-roots workers and candidates' political ...
Japan and Australia signed a new bilateral security agreement covering military, intelligence, cybersecurity and space cooperation on Saturday, in a move that Chinese experts said shows the two countries' willingness to be pawns of the US, while threatening regional peace ...
There are continuous objective and rational voices in Australia, including those from the country's former prime minister Paul Keating, hoping to rectify the Albanese administration's drift on China policy and the strategy of blindly following the US, Chinese observers said, ...
Amid renewed conflict and tension across Eurasia, the sixth Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit, an inter-governmental forum, is taking place on Wednesday and Thursday in Astana, capital of Kazakhstan, where topics concerning regional security ...
China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Tuesday rebuked a "baseless" accusation from the UK' top cyber intelligence agency chief who is expected to make a speech claiming China is using its financial and scientific muscle to manipulate technologies in ...
As the world is closely looking to the big upcoming Chinese political event – the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) – with wide international press coverage, the website and social media accounts for the media ...
The first US-Pacific Islands Country Summit got off to a "rocky start" amid widespread skepticism from Pacific island nations after the Solomon Islands rejected a draft US agreement and the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau raised serious concerns about "insufficient" ...
The state funeral for the assassinated former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was held in Tokyo on Tuesday against a backdrop of strong internal controversy from the public and opposition parties over the cost and legitimacy of such a ceremony, ...
With the US' so-called Indo-Pacific Strategy getting more aggressive, countries in Asia including China and North Korea appear on high alert ahead of US Vice President Kamala Harris' first official visit to Japan and South Korea in the wake of ...
Do the military exchanges between Germany and Japan mean that Germany will be a regular presence in the Asia-Pacific region? Will it further upset the security situation in the region? Wide concerns have been triggered after Japan's Air Self-Defense Force ...
The US and Japan are eyeing a closer military alliance and trying hard to stir up trouble on the Taiwan question in a bid to suppress China, as Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada met with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ...
Although China and Japan are about welcome the 50th anniversary of the normalization of bilateral relations on September 29, tensions persist as Japan is moving toward a wrong direction to follow the US to contain China and provoke China on ...
Registrations of married couples in China in 2021 dropped below 8 million for the first time since 2003, and nearly half of them were aged 30 or above, latest data showed. With the number of people at prime marriage age ...
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong expressed Canberra's wish to have the "closest possible relationship" with Papua New Guinea (PNG) as she started her first visit to the South Pacific island nation on Monday after the new Labor government took office. ...
Tokyo appears to be actively joining the US-led malicious discourse system of "China's debt trap theory," which has also become the basis for endlessly slandering China and smearing the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), as Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ...
Two potential big events in September in Tokyo - the second round of "two-plus-two" (2+2) security talks involving Japanese and Indian foreign and defense ministers, and the state funeral for former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with the Indian leader ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol will send important positive messages to each other on the 30th anniversary of the establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations, which falls on Wednesday, Chinese Ambassador to South Korea Xing Haiming ...
As Washington is seeking to bolster strategic ties with one of its closest Asian allies, the US and South Korea will begin their biggest combined military training exercise in four years from Monday as tensions in the Korean Peninsula escalate. ...
Although it has been 77 years since Japan's unconditional surrender in World War II, some Japanese senior politicians still seem obsessed with their country's past war of aggression, as Japan's industry minister on Saturday became the first member of Prime ...
Seeking to serve a stable administration amid the “biggest challenges of the postwar era,” including the pandemic, inflation, souring ties with China and controversy over politicians' links to a cult, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced a reshuffle of his ...
As tensions escalate across the Taiwan Straits as result of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's provocative visit to the island, a rumor that some of the Chinese relics at the Palace Museum in Taipei will be relocated to the US ...
At a time of tensions in the Taiwan Straits after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's provocative visit to Taiwan island, Japan has not only failed to maintain regional stability, but instead issued erroneous statements on the Taiwan question. In this ...
Talks between the Chinese and Japanese foreign ministers, which were reportedly scheduled for Thursday afternoon on the sidelines of ASEAN events in Phnom Penh, have been cancelled, after Japan with other Group of Seven (G7) members and the European Union ...
About 10 days after Japan's nuclear regulator approved the plan to discharge nuclear-contaminated water from the Fukushima power plant, another nuclear power plant in central Japan leaked about seven tons of water containing radioactive elements, sparking wide concern over safety ...
New Zealand welcomes tourists, students and investors including those from China, with its borders fully reopening on Monday, which analysts say is a positive sign that the country is expected to regain its popularity among Chinese and promote its ties ...
A total of 25 senior Chinese officials, or centrally administered officials, have faced disciplinary actions so far this year, equaling a record annual number in recent years, underscoring the Communist Party of China (CPC)'s zero tolerance toward corruption and its ...
Recently, a series of positive signals have been released in China-India relations including the "constructive and forward-looking" 16th Corps Commander-level talks held earlier this month.
Tornado in Lianyungang, East China's Jiangsu Province on Wednesday has affected 2,272 people and injured 26 people all of whom have been sent to hospital in time for treatment, state-owned broadcaster CCTV reported on Thursday.
Japanese figure skating icon Yuzuru Hanyu announced his retirement on Tuesday afternoon, bringing an end to a 12-year senior career that saw him create a series of legends in competitive skating. The related topics immediately trended on Twitter-like Chinese social ...
South Korea's foreign minister will make a three-day visit to Japan from Monday, the first in more than four years since bilateral ties sunk to their lowest level in decades due to historical issues. The visit caught public attention as ...
More details about the assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe were revealed to the public as of Thursday, and the motivation of the killer Tetsuya Yamagami exposed an "open secret" of Japanese politics — the collusion between some ...
With Japan's domestic political forces turning right, the momentum of a strengthening relationship between Japan and secessionist Taiwan authorities could be one of the negative legacies and time bombs left by suddenly diseased Shinzo Abe, warned observers from the Chinese ...
The assassination of the former Japanese Prime Minister has seemingly caused a “copy cat” effect in surrounding countries and regions including South Korea and the island of Taiwan on the potential threat of the assassination of senior politicians.
Wuhan University in Central China's Hubei Province discovered a cholera case on Saturday, the local center for disease control and prevention (CDC) confirmed on Monday morning, specifying that after treatment the patient has greatly improved and the symptoms have disappeared. ...
Two days after Shinzo Abe, 67, Japan's longest-serving modern prime minister, was shot dead on Friday while making a speech in support of a local candidate in the Western Japanese city of Nara, Japan's ruling party scored a sweeping victory ...
Exclusive: Japanese and US militaries have conspired since 2021 to assist Washington to deploy intermediate-range ballistic missiles on Japan's SW islands for “integrated deterrence" against China, a source close to the matter told the GT.
New Zealand's Prime Minister appeared to take a softer line on China's cooperation with Pacific island nations in the region in a speech during her visit to Australia on Thursday. According to Chinese analysts this signaled that Canberra's wishful thinking ...
Chinese mainland found 183 local COVID-19 cases on Friday, including 38 confirmed and 145 asymptomatic cases. Daily cases on Friday expanded from the previous day, when the number of cases exceeded the 100 mark for the first time in 15 ...
A Chinese military aircraft recently arrived at Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan to deliver disaster relief supplies to the local people, reminding many netizens of the stark contrast from last August when a US military aircraft forcibly took off from ...
Japan must face up to and reflect on its own historical crimes and should not seek military rise by tying up NATO.
In response to a question over Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese' warning against China to learn from Russian President Vladimir Putin's "strategic failure," a spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry at a regular press briefing on Tuesday urged certain politicians ...
The Chinese Foreign Ministry condemned some personnel of the island of Taiwan who degraded themselves and were willing to become followers of another country in an attempt to attend the United Nations (UN) Ocean Conference, saying they can only bring ...
Japan is desperately trying to pull the US and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) into the Asia-Pacific region to support Japan in containing China given Japan's rising strategic loneliness and anxiety over the lack of long-term US promises in ...
After more than a month of clearance of infections in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong Province, the city has reported sporadic local COVID-19 cases in recent days. In light of this, Shenzhen has tightened its anti-epidemic measures by requesting its residents ...
The rush to regular testing has slowed down, less than two months after the construction of 15-minute distance nucleic acid testing services began in big cities across the country.
The Hong Kong Palace Museum officially opened on Wednesday, with Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Carrie Lam addressing the opening ceremony as the last public event of her tenure, wishing the museum will further enhance ...
Due to the continuous heavy rain, a hydrometric station of a main stream in Zhujiang (Pearl) River Basin, South China's Guangdong Province registered a flood flow that exceeded historic records on Wednesday, and is expected to have a peak discharge ...
In a series of reckless moves such as using the Ukraine crisis and hyping the so-called “China threat” to advocate “bloc politics” and “confrontation between camps” underlying the NATO's Asia-Pacific expansion, seeking to doubleits defense budget, as well as provoking ...
As the epidemic prevention and control situation in Beijing continues to improve and has entered the final phase, local authorities launched an inspection campaign to consolidate the hard-won achievements in the COVID fight.
While the new government has yet to bring relief to the Australian education sector, which has suffered talent losses and financial stress during the pandemic, the peak body representing elite Australian universities has called on Canberra to recalibrate its China ...
Chung Jae-ho, 62, a professor of international relations and director of the Institute for Chinese Studies at Seoul National University, was nominated by South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol as the new ambassador to China on Tuesday.
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi is scheduled to attend the third "China+Central Asia" (C+C5) Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Kazakhstan and pay an official visit to the country from June 6 to 9.
The Guizhou-Guangzhou Railway resumed operation on Sunday after a high-speed train derailed in Southwest China's Guizhou Province due to a mudslide on Saturday, killing a driver and injuring one attendant and seven passengers.
Chinese President Xi Jinping met John Lee Ka-chiu, the newly appointed sixth-term chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Monday in Beijing, during which he praised Lee for his patriotism and contributions for safeguarding national security ...
The "ugly textbook illustration" scandal is brewing, with a growing number of Chinese netizens and state-owned media outlets calling for a thorough investigation into problematic press houses and penalties against relevant personnel, after illustrations in a national publisher's textbooks sparked ...
COVID-19 cases have exceeded one million in the island of Taiwan, but Washington and Taiwan authorities still focus on playing political games to advocate for the World Health Organization (WHO) to invite the island of Taiwan to participate as an ...
Further development of China-Philippine relations is expected during the new Philippine administration under the leadership of Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., Chinese analysts said after Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke on the phone with Marcos on Wednesday on bilateral ties ...
As the Ministry of Education (MOE) announced on Tuesday that China has established the world's largest higher education system, with 240 million college graduates, top-ranking Tsinghua University's vice president said the country's higher education sector is on a new path ...
The real threat to Okinawa, a Japanese prefecture in the Ryukyu Islands, is not China, said a Japanese observer and social media influencer who was born in Okinawa during an exclusive interview with the Global Times on Sunday. The observer ...
A relaxed quarantine policy, low vaccination rate and political manipulation over the anti-epidemic work have contributed to the surge of Omicron cases in Taiwan as the island saw more than 60,000 daily COVID-19 cases for the fourth straight day in ...
After failing to sway the Solomon Islands on the security cooperation with China, the US has turned to a new target, China's fishing activities.
At a time when both the Australian ruling party and the opposition have been smearing security cooperation between China and the Solomon Islands ahead of the Australian elections, the Chinese Foreign Ministry again spoke up for the security cooperation by ...
According to a statement sent to the Global Times on Monday, China's General Administration of Customs has made arrangements to prevent the introduction and spread of acute, severe hepatitis of unknown origin in children which have been reported in multiple ...
Tokyo is stepping up its plot to collude with the separatist authority on the island of Taiwan in an attempt to form an anti-mainland clique under the so-called Indo-Pacific strategy with its latest move of sending a delegation from the ...
Japan is fractious in closely working with the US to strengthen their alliance's deterrence in the Asia-Pacific region, which has sparked deep concern among its neighbors as the US-Japan aggressive military cooperation would worsen the security environment in the region, ...
China on Thursday released its first nationwide official document focusing on its youth in the new era, highlighting the historical achievements the country has made in youth development in the new era, the generation's amazing vibrancy and passion, and their ...
China has released the first nationwide official document focusing on its youth, recording achievements in the country's youth development in the new era and reflecting its spirit. The official document was issued on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of ...
China and the Solomon Islands will act according to customary international practice on the basis of consultation, Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, after both China and the Solomon Islands have announced the signing of a bilateral security deal.
A draft amendment to the Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests was submitted to China's top legislature for its second review, under which a compulsory reporting system is expected to be established in order to prevent trafficking ...
Ever since Shahbaz Sharif was elected as Pakistan's new prime minister, he has highlighted the friendship between Pakistan and China, which was also echoed by the Chinese Foreign Ministry. China-Pakistan relations are expected to remain the key focus for the ...
Despite the Australian government operates in "caretaker" mode due to the national election campaign, an Australian minister still arrived in the Solomon Islands on Wednesday and asked the island nation's prime minister not to sign a proposed security deal with ...
US President Joe Biden is expected to visit Japan for the QUAD summit in late May, a move which experts see as a further attempt to showcase US leadership in the Indo-Pacific region and as another try with Japan and ...
Political changes within Pakistan could bring instability after the new prime minister was elected on Monday because the struggles between the supporters of ousted former prime minister Imran Khan and other political parties are unlikely to end easily, and although ...
Australia continues to take a dangerous path of military expansion with its latest move of allocating more than 2 percent of its GDP for military expenditure, which according to Chinese observers exposed its naive ambition of weaponzing itself to serve ...
While hyping rumors and creating fear that China is aggressively expanding its military in the South Pacific region, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is lobbying Pacific Island nations against a draft security agreement between China and the Solomon Islands, desperately ...
Although the new Chinese Ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian has been generating obvious goodwill toward Australia since he took office in January, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison still ruled out a meeting with the ambassador, giving the excuse that "Beijing's ...
More aircraft wreckage and human remains of the victims were found on Thursday at the crash site in the forested mountain in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the fourth day after the plane with 132 people on board crashed ...
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida apparently failed to persuade India to take a similar position over the Ukraine crisis as its partners the US, Japan and Australia in the Quad mechanism during his meeting with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi ...
China is facing mounting pressure to guard against imported infections as new confirmed COVID-19 cases have rebounded globally in the past week with more than 40 percent of cases appearing in areas surrounding China, according to China's National Health Commission ...
China's 2022 Work Report said more than 10 million students are expected to join the job market this summer, which media reported would be the largest ever. Challenged by mounting employment pressure, Chinese lawmakers and political advisors put forward their ...
South Korea's presidential election is expected to conclude on Wednesday, and the result could significantly impact China-South Korea ties in the coming years, for which China will remain prepared.
Australia revealed a big-budget plan to build a base for nuclear-powered submarines, which will be the first such project by the country since the 1990s. The new base is very likely to be used by US nuclear submarines first rather ...
Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Carrie Lam reiterated on Wednesday that Hong Kong will not have a citywide lockdown and the mass testing will take into account the local situation, refuting the circulating rumor that there ...
In a virtual speech to a commemorative event marking the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Shanghai Communique, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi called on the US to respect the one-China principle rather than hollow out ...
China's State Council Information Office on Monday issued the Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States in 2021. The report said the human rights situation in the US, which has a notorious record, worsened in 2021 as political ...
A Japanese think tank survey showed on Saturday that the share of Chinese who have a favorable impression of Japan has tumbled. Chinese observers believe the main factor could be Tokyo's provocative policies toward China, including those on the infamous ...
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on the island of Taiwan has vowed to launch an investigation into a Chinese Taipei speed skater who posted a video wearing the uniform of Team China before the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, calling ...
A total of 437 participants of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games tested positive starting from January 23, when the Olympic Village welcomed the first batch of athletes and other relevant personnel, said an official of the organizing committee of ...
The stories between Chinese snowboard prodigy Su Yiming and Yasuhiro Sato - the Japanese coach Su is "most grateful to" - have hit the headlines in China this week after Su bagged one silver and one gold medals for China ...
It has been 28 years since Rachel rushed into Central Perk wearing a wedding dress in the iconic opening scene of the series, and 18 years since the group of friends handed over their keys and closed the door to ...
As China's elite male figure skater Jin Boyang and the world-famous Japanese figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu made headlines when they tried to form a heart in front of the cameras after the men's single figure skating at the Beijing 2022 ...
As the Ukraine crisis becomes ever more complex, with the US claiming that Russia is planning for an imminent invasion while Moscow continuing to deny it and accusing Washington of spreading fear via disinformation, Chinese analysts said Washington needs the ...
China's strict but "well-thought-out" efforts to stop the spread of the COVID-19 at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games have received praises from foreign journalists, who said that the efforts have made them reassured.
As Juan Antonio Samaranch, the chairman of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission for Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games says, the Games will not only present the world a wonderful 16-day sporting festival but also will leave an Olympic ...
With just days remaining before the opening of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, the Chinese delegation's anti-doping preparations have entered the final stage as the China Anti-Doping Agency reiterated its position of "zero tolerance" on doping.
Chinese border defense troops have returned an Indian national who illegally entered Chinese territory after providing humanitarian aid, the Chinese military revealed on Thursday.
Two young skiers from Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region have secured places in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games this week, making athletics history by having participants from the high plateau to make their debut on the Olympic stage.
Do people who continue issuing China-related threats in TV interviews or write commentary to promote anti-China sentiments, or give advices to Western governments on China policies really know anything about China? Or at least know how to understand information on ...
Chinese Embassy in Russia refuted a Bloomberg report which claimed that the Chinese leader allegedly asked Russian President Vladimir Putin not to invade Ukraine during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. The embassy told TASS that the news "is a ...
At a time of a national brought about by the COVID-19 crisis, a number of US officials have been revealed to have cashed in on the epidemic by insider trading while concealing vital epidemic information from the public.
Japan must accept the fact that the Diaoyu Islands belong to China and that China has the ability to defend them, said Chinese analysts, commenting on Japanese media's mass coverage of 2022's first patrol by China Coast Guard ships in ...
In order to accurately forecast weather during the upcoming Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, the meteorological service in the Yanqing district of Beijing has developed a short-term forecasting system based on high technology, which can update weather forecast ...
Although the US has repeatedly voiced its support for Lithuania, the country is beset with difficulties at home as a latest poll indicates that the Lithuanian government's approval ratings have hit a decade low, and the Lituanian president called Lithuanian ...
The Beijing organizing committee for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games said Thursday that a "certain number" of positive COVID-19 cases will be highly possible during the Games, as a large number of people from different countries and regions will come ...
China's central bank on Wednesday denied rumors that Chen Yaoming from China Banknote Printing and Minting Corp was being investigated because he was suspected of printing banknotes with the same code number worth 2 trillion yuan ($313 billion) without authorization.
There were almost no media reports, let alone any activities to celebrate the 49th anniversary of China-Australia diplomatic relations which fell on Tuesday as tensions continue between the two countries this year.
China will amend the Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests, which will define the specific meaning of "discrimination against women" for the first time, and also prohibit the acts of mind control against women, stipulating that the ...
As Rai, the strongest typhoon to affect the Nansha Islands since 1949, strengthened to super typhoon on Saturday afternoon, China launched a level-4 emergency response for possible meteorological disasters. But analysts believe Rai is less likely to make landfall in ...
Since the beginning of winter, Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province has recorded a series of hemorrhagic fever cases, a natural epidemic disease with a high fatality rate. Medical experts said that rodents are the main source of infection, and called ...
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on the island of Taiwan has been criticized for selling the interests of the people of Taiwan out in exchange for US support of its secessionist political pursuit, after the DPP manipulated a so-called referendum ...
Chinese foreign ministry responded with calm and confidence on Thursday when asked to comment on Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's statement that he has no plan to attend the Winter Olympics in Beijing at the moment.
Australia reopened its borders to skilled workers and international students on Wednesday, nearly two years after closing them due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but a surge in the number of international students returning to the country is not expected given ...
More than 440,000 residents of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) have applied for Hong Kong health code accounts as of Tuesday morning, and 150,000 of the accounts have been activated, said HKSAR Chief Executive Carrie Lam, amid reports ...
On the occasion of China holding nationwide commemoration services on Monday for the victims of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, Chinese officials warned that militarism must not be allowed to revive.
Chinese President Xi Jinping will have a virtual meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, during which the two leaders will review bilateral relations and cooperation achievements over the year, draw up top-level design for the development of bilateral ...
Japan again chose to keep silent at the ongoing Group of Seven (G7) summit on the US' calling on its allies not to send diplomatic representatives to the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, which experts said demonstrates that Japan is a ...
Aside from the headstrong Morrison government which rushed to the frontline to follow the US' “diplomatic boycott” of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, other members of the Five Eyes Alliance, though announcing similar decisions, exposed their different calculations in ...
Following the US closely, Australia announced on Wednesday a "diplomatic boycott" of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, a move that experts said proves nothing other than the Morison government's lack of an independent policy, and acts as a "henchman" of ...
Canberra staged a new political show by joining the US in a "boycott" of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, which fully exposes that it blindly follows the US, does not know right from wrong and has no bottom line, ...
The visit to the notorious Yasukuni Shrine by an "unusually large" contingent of Japanese lawmakers on Tuesday, the day Japan attacked Pearl Harbor 80 years ago, was mocked by analysts as a spit on US victory and denial of US ...
Although the new and more contagious COVID-19 variant Omicron is emerging in many countries, Chinese top respiratory expert Zhong Nanshan said: "We don't need to be afraid of Omicron by applying the dynamic zero-case policy and strictly observing the set ...
Chinese Foreign Ministry on Sunday released a report on US democracy, exposing the deficiencies and abuse of democracy in the US as well as the harm of exporting such democracy.
Amid eager anticipation, online registration in the real-name system for the Hong Kong health code will start on December 10, officials of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) told a press conference on Thursday.
Days ahead of the US-initiated summit of democracy, the island of Taiwan plans to hold a forum with great fanfare, inviting some politicians and experts from Western countries and regions. But this is just a political show gathering a motley ...
As the reopening plan for Australia's border has been postponed two weeks to December 15 with the arrival of the Omicron variant, the Chinese Embassy in Australia warned international students to be mindful of their wellbeing as health and safety ...
At the invitation of Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is scheduled to attend the 13th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit via video link from Thursday to Friday. Post-COVID-19 socio-economic recovery, multilateralism, connectivity and regional cooperation ...
In order to effectively address China's aging population, the country issued a set of guidelines on Wednesday on strengthening work on the senior population to enhance the sense of happiness and security of the elderly.
China's top internet regulator said on Tuesday that it will establish a negative list to prevent celebrity-related content from promoting distorted values, including abnormal aesthetics, vulgar scandals, and content that induces fans to blindly idolize celebrities or that hypes the ...
The latest official data from China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) shows that 8.14 million marriages were registered in 2020, down 1.13 million from 2019 and the lowest level in 17 years. But the divorce rate dropped last year, halting ...
