China is willing to discuss with other countries over mutual recognition of COVID-19 vaccinations, which is helpful to resume and secure safe and orderly people-to-people exchanges, China's State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Sunday.
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Sunday expressed China's firm stance on topics of sovereignty and security, including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and the South China Sea, making the red line clear and sending an alarm to countries that have used China's core interests as leverage to jeopardize the nation's development, analysts said.
The real definition of multilateralism is respecting the UN Charter, promoting democratization of international relations, and not playing with group politics or selective multilateralism, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi emphasized on Sunday.
China and India are friends and partners, not threats and opponent, said Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi at a Sunday press conference, noting that facts have proved that one-sided confrontation won't solve the problem, and peaceful negotiation is the way out.
China is willing to negotiate with other countries concerning mutual recognition of COVID-19 vaccinations: Wang
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Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said China and Russia will continue to cooperate in fighting the Color Revolution, disinformation, and safeguard political security together in 2021, which marks the 20th anniversary of the China-Russia Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation.
Serbia on Friday received the third shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from China, President Aleksandar Vucic has said.
On behalf of 70 countries, a representative of Belarus to the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council expressed support to China's implementation of “one country, two systems” in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and urged certain countries to stop interfering in China's internal affairs.
China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin urged similar studies in other countries and regions like the World Health Organization's virus origins study in Wuhan, as he commented on an open letter from a group of foreign scientists that called for a "new probe" of the coronavirus, during a routine press conference on Friday.
Chinese companies conduct vaccine research and development in strict accordance with scientific rules and regulatory requirements under the guidance of government, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Thursday.
After China pulled BBC World News off the air for serious content violation, the BBC seemed to go astray further on making false China reports especially regarding the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The BBC recently released a report twisting southern Xinjiang officials' efforts to help impoverished villagers go outside the region and earn a better living, calling the well-intentioned move "evidence of coercion."
China firmly opposes the mutual establishment of official agencies and official exchanges in all forms between the Taiwan region and countries having diplomatic relations with China including Lithuania, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Thursday in response to Lithuania's plan to open a trade representation office in the island of Taiwan.
A Chinese envoy on Wednesday called for efforts to advance the political process in South Sudan.
China's permanent representative to the United Nations, Zhang Jun, on Tuesday showcased his country's achievements in poverty reduction and shared experience with UN member states and agencies.
As the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines provided by China for Egypt and the General Secretariat of Arab League arrived, the Arab world once again witnessed the determination of China to underpin international solidarity against the COVID-19 pandemic, and promote the building of a global community of health for all.
German exports to the United States and China, the country's biggest export markets in 2020, showed a mixed picture as exports to the U.S. were "much more affected" by the COVID-19 crisis than exports to China, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) said on Wednesday.
China hopes that Australia can safeguard the safety and legitimate rights and interests of Chinese citizens in Australia, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday.
Spokespersons from the Chinese Foreign Ministry and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) answered questions about why a recent survey showed that Americans' favorable ratings of China have plummeted, saying that the previous US administration had seriously poisoned the public opinion atmosphere of the two countries.
China is deeply concerned about the continuing discrimination against Asian people including overseas Chinese in Australia, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, urging Australia to face the problem and take concrete measures to strengthen education of citizens.
No matter how the regional and international landscapes may evolve, and what challenges and risks may arise, China will continue to work with Pakistan to cement their ironclad friendship, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in a signed article published on a Pakistani newspaper Tuesday.
China and Pakistan should push their cooperation to a higher level, wider range and greater depth as they celebrate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Tuesday.
Recently, some Indian media quoted Western media report that Chinese hackers may have launched cyber attacks on India's power system, ports and two vaccine companies. What is your comment?
Australian media outlets and politicians who follow Trumpism have soured China-Australian relations, experts said on Tuesday, after the Chinese Embassy in Australia published an article titled "It is so difficult to be China's friends in Australia today."
Never in Chinese history has Xinjiang been referred to as "East Turkestan," and there has never been any state known by that name, said the Chinese Embassy in the UK on Tuesday, refuting a report by The Guardian alleging that "East Turkestan" once "existed" in the modern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
With the bilateral agreement on geographical indications (GIs) entering into force on Monday, the European Union (EU) and China will work on promoting the registered agri-food products as well as protecting the iconic names.
Military relations stand as a bright spot and an important supporting force of the strategic cooperation between China and Russia, the Chinese Ministry of National Defense said Monday.
A foreign ministry spokesperson on Monday expressed firm opposition to the wrong actions of politicizing human rights issues and interfering in China's internal affairs under the pretext of human rights issues.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Monday that China is willing to provide COVID-19 vaccines within its capabilities to Poland in accordance with the European country's demand.
While its own people in Texas are in dire straits amid an electricity-related crisis, the US has turned its attention to the Mekong water resource issue, while turning a blind eye to China's efforts to resolve the problems.
Canada has quietly removed Ghana and some other countries from the list of signatories on the so-called declaration against "arbitrary detention" recently, and Benin has also made it clear to China that it did not participate in the declaration but was forcibly put on the list by Canada, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday, denouncing Canada for fooling the international community out of selfish interests and forcibly including some countries to sign the so-called declaration.
The second batch of China's Sinovac vaccine arrived in Mexico on Saturday, the Mexican Ministry of Health said.
Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou was scheduled to return to the British Columbia Supreme Court in Canada on Monday, as the court will hear the arguments related to the four branches of abuse of process raised by her lawyers. Both her lawyers and Huawei firmly believe in her innocence, calling for the release of Meng.
A shipment of COVID-19 vaccines donated by the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) to the Philippines' army arrived in Manila on Sunday afternoon. President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte went to the airport to accept the vaccines, the first batch the Philippines received since the outbreak.
When a plane carrying Thailand's first batch of COVID-19 vaccines from China's Sinovac landed at an airport here on Wednesday, people waiting on the tarmac cheered and applauded.
A batch of COVID-19 vaccines donated by China arrived here on Wednesday to help the African country fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, and it was also the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines received by the country.
The Ministry of Commerce of China and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy of South Korea Friday held a meeting of chief negotiators for the second phase of free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations, with an expert on Saturday saying that this shows the increasing mutual political trust between the two countries despite current discord, and will have an optimistic effect on trade liberalization and multilateralism.
China is not seeking revenge, it is seeking the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, Lu Shaye, Chinese Ambassador to France, said in an interview with French public national television channel France 2 on Thursday, in response to a question on the so-called Wolf Warrior style diplomacy of China.
China's State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi talked with Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar over the phone on Thursday, six days after the two countries held the tenth round of corps commander-level talks, in which the two countries had an in-depth exchange of views on issues along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Western Sector, and agreed to follow the consensus of state leaders.
The rights and wrongs of the China-India border issue last year are very clear, and lessons should be drawn from the past, China's State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said during a phone call on Thursday with Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.
As a new round of silent battles initiated by the US and its allies using the excuse of human rights to attack countries, particularly China and Russia, had been waged at the 46th United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in recent days, analysts warn that as the US re-engages with the UN body and touts the idea of a "democratic alliance," they may adopt more aggressive measures to pressure China and Russia by further politicizing human rights issues.
The central government has appointed China's top climate advisor, Xie Zhenhua, as China's special envoy on climate change, with observers describing his return as "answering the nation's call" when China needs a powerful and experienced figure to lead its climate negotiations with the US after the US rejoined the Paris Agreement.
China has never required US diplomats in China to take anal swab tests, said Chinese Foreign Minister spokeperson Zhao Lijian at a routine press conference on Thursday, refuting a report by The Washington Post alleging that some US personnel have complained about "being subjected to anal swab tests for COVID-19."
China's top climate advisor Xie Zhenhua will serve as China's special envoy on climate change. An office on climate issues will also be launched which will be affiliated to the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE), the ministry confirmed Thursday.
Ambassador Chen Xu, China's Permanent Representative to the UN Office at Geneva, on Wednesday urged Western countries to stop abusing the UN Human Rights Council and using Xinjiang to meddle in China's internal affairs, but to focus on solving their own human rights problems.
The fact that China has been expanding its influence in the world while sharing its growth dividend with partner countries through projects under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has caused envy and animosity in some Western countries, which have been demonizing China and accusing the country of setting up "debt traps". This has been an attempt to sow discord between China and its partners.
China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin's Regular Press Conference on February 24, 2021.
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is intentionally disrupting Chinese cooperation with the UN Human Rights Council, when China has constant communication with its senior officials, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Wednesday after the British minister condemned China over Xinjiang and called for the UN to be given "urgent and unfettered" access to the region.
By publishing an opinion piece that's lacking in evidence and laden with fallacies co-authored by former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, the Worst Secretary of State Ever, who simply wants to keep his political profile after stepping down, the Wall Street Journal has trespassed the bottom line of media integrity and descended into a propaganda machine that sells false information for clicks.
Naval forces of China and Singapore are scheduled to conduct a joint drill in waters near Singapore on Wednesday, according to the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy.
The Chinese Embassy in the UK on Wednesday expressed grave concern over The Guardian's misuse of a Chinese company's logo in its report, and requested that the newspaper make an immediate correction and apologize to the Chinese company affected by its misconduct.
As some anti-China politicians in Western countries are trying to hype the "genocide" rumors about China's Xinjiang to obstruct the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games, Chinese experts said if these attempts become the official stance of these Western countries, there will be serious consequences.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry has refuted accusations made by the US State Department spokesperson that Beijing has been averting blame, saying that China has expounded its position multiple times with facts and data, and urges the US to establish constructive dialogue with China and bring China-US relations back to the right track.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry and the Embassy to Canada firmly oppose Canada's interference in Xinjiang and its calls to remove the 2022 Winter Olympic Games from Beijing, after the Canadian parliament passed a motion that determined policies in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region constituted "genocide."
The Chinese Embassy in Kazakhstan on Monday refuted a rumor about chartered flights from Kazakhstan's Almaty to Urumqi in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
The Chinese Embassy in Canada strongly condemned the Canadian Parliament's act of interference in Chinese internal affairs and malicious provocation of 1.4 billion China people, after the legislative body on Monday passed a motion that determined policies in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region constituted "genocide" and called for the removal of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games from Beijing.
The Human Rights Council has no place for lies and deception, Liu stressed.
The Ongoing China-aided rural water supply and rural road projects have been playing a crucial role in supporting socio-economic development and alleviating poverty in rural Cambodia, a Cambodian senior official said recently to Xinhua.
China on Monday urged all countries to embrace a human rights philosophy that centers on the people and uphold both universality and particularity of human rights.
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday addressed the 46th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council via video link, where he shared China's philosophy, practices, and experiences in human rights protection and put forward important views and propositions on global human rights governance on behalf of China, promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.
From Golden Age partner to a vanguard that attacks China on various fronts, the US factor is the biggest influence behind the freezing China-UK ties, said Chinese observers. They pointed out that London is striving to stand up in the contest between Beijing and Washington, but such opportunistic diplomatic tricks will backfire.
China has once again sent a clear and concrete message to the US, calling for bringing bilateral ties to the right track after US President Joe Biden failed to agree with allies at the G7 summit and Munich Security Conference on confronting China together, as State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, at a forum held in Beijing on Monday, urged the new US administration to adjust its problematic policies on China "as soon as possible."
A briefing on stories of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was held in Urumqi, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Monday, with major politicians from across the world hailing the strong leadership of the CPC and the country's efforts in poverty alleviation and ethnic solidarity in Xinjiang.
As the situation intensifies in Myanmar, which is bracing for the largest anti-coup protest yet after bloody clashes, Chinese observers urged outside countries, such as the US, to stop “pouring oil on the fire,” and encouraged ASEAN to play a coordinating role in easing the turbulence.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday slammed Canada for being hypocritical and despicable by forcibly including some countries in signing the so-called declaration against "arbitrary detention," calling it a forged statement and an act of fraud.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni met with visiting senior Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi here on Sunday.
The Philippines' Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the emergency use authorization (EUA) to China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines, FDA Director General Enrique Domingo said on Monday.
Good morning and good evening. During the Chinese Spring Festival season, visionary people from China and the United States are gathering at Lanting to discuss the future of China-U.S. relations. This is indeed very important. Let me begin by extending, on behalf of the Foreign Ministry, our New Year greetings to all the friends who have been caring for and supporting China-U.S. relations over the years.
China hopes the US to lift its restrictions on Chinese educational and cultural groups, media outlets and institutions for overseas Chinese affairs in the US, remove its obstructions for US local governments and social sectors to engage with China, State Councilor Wang Yi said Monday.
Patriotism and profound respect toward the People's Liberation Army (PLA) martyrs who sacrificed their lives to defend China's territory in the Galwan Valley conflict with India in June 2020 have been the hottest topics trending on Chinese social media networks in recent days, but Chinese authorities and the public are demonstrating sophistication of not letting antagonism overwhelm rationality.
A recent exclusive report by Foreign Policy said that the US State Department's Office of the Legal Advisor had concluded after a review that there was not sufficient evidence to prove so-called genocide in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, which Chinese analysts took as further demonstration that the judgment of "genocide" was politically driven and without evidence, and even the US State Department itself cannot present a legal basis for the decision.
China & India held the 10th round of China-India Corps Commander Level Meetings, in which the two sides positively appraised the smooth completion of the disengagement of frontline troops in the Pangong Tso area: Chinese Defense Ministry
China and India reportedly held the 10th round of corps commander-level talks on Saturday, and Chinese analysts predicted on Sunday that the two countries' troops could further disengage at other previous hot spots after smooth disengagement at the northern and southern banks of Pangong Tso days earlier.
The Chinese Embassy in Germany expressed strong indignation and called the German media outlet Bild “despicable,” after the latter hyped a conspiracy theory that the coronavirus was leaked from a Wuhan virology lab.
The ministers of public security of China and Vietnam have agreed to enhance cooperation on busting crimes.
Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on Saturday held a meeting with visiting senior Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi, during which the two sides vowed to boost cooperation and deepen the China-Qatar strategic partnership.
The COVID-19 vaccine aid provided to Belarus by the Chinese government has arrived in Belarus.
The Beijing 2022 Organizing Committee on Saturday congratulated Seiko Hashimoto on her appointment as the president of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee.
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday held a phone conversation with Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi. Both sides exchanged views mainly on the situation in Myanmar and coordinated positions in this regard.
Some people in Canada, the US and Australia have been spreading rumors about Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region for some time, which only makes the world see their ignorance and absurdity, and further casts their self-proclaimed aura of democracy and human rights into the shadow, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said on Friday.
The West's campaign to put pressure on and intervene in Myanmar's domestic affairs further escalated after the UK and Canada imposed targeted sanctions on Myanmar's generals on Thursday following the US, while India joined other US "Quad" allies to point fingers at Naypyidaw.
Some media, including the British media, have stubbornly held ideological prejudices against China for some time; their fabrications and spreading of rumors and lies on China-related issues have seriously misled and blinded many people, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told a regular press meeting on Friday, urging media to play a positive and constructive role, and report news that is based on truth.
The world is closely watching whether US President Joe Biden will successfully unite American alliances during his first major multilateral engagement as president with leaders from the Group of Seven nations (G7) in a virtual meeting on Friday to deal with the challenges from China and Russia.
US President Joe Biden and his officials are neither innovative nor revolutionary regarding the US strategy toward China and Russia – asking allies to spend more resources to assist the US while suffering from a huge mess at home, said Chinese experts as the US and its NATO allies attempt to repair mutual trust damaged by Donald Trump. While old political values might keep them together, concrete interests will divide them again, analysts said on Thursday.
China should keep a close watch on the Indo-Pacific region and mark its red lines, Chinese experts said on Thursday, right before the third Quad meeting of the US, Japan, India and Australia since 2020 to be held on Thursday morning (ET), also the first virtual Quad meeting under the Biden administration.
How does the US, the most powerful country on earth, keep failing so astonishingly to respond to natural disasters? That question is on the minds of many in China and beyond, as they watched in disbelief a severe winter storm sweeping through parts of the US, leaving over 30 people dead and several million in the dark without power.
As China and Myanmar maintain stable and long-term military cooperation, selling weapons to Myanmar's military is normal, Chinese experts said Thursday, refuting a report published by a Myanmar civil society group that claims weapons sold by Chinese companies were "used by the military against its own people."
The world is closely watching whether US President Joe Biden will successfully unite its alliances in Europe in his first event with leaders from the Group of Seven nations (G7) in a virtual meeting on Friday to deal with the “China challenge.”
China expressed strong opposition to remarks made by Czech Cardinal Dominik Duka, who claimed during a sermon that the coronavirus was "a Chinese biological weapon", and has urged him to immediately correct his mistakes, the Chinese Embassy in the Czech Republic said on Wednesday.
A recombinant strain of the novel coronavirus has likely been detected in the US, leading Chinese experts to warn that a more dangerous virus could emerge if SARS-CoV-2 recombines with other coronavirus.
Can the US provide all the raw data of its COVID-19 cases? Can it conduct full scale collaboration with the WHO, and can it invite WHO experts to probe virus origins in the country? These were questions asked by FM spokesperson Hua Chunying in response to recent suspicions voiced by Western politicians and media over WHO experts' work in China.
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in response to claims that China backed the Myanmar upheaval and reports that some people in Myanmar said they will boycott Chinese goods, said these were pure rumors and intended to sow discord between China and Myanmar.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic's comments refuting doubts cast by German media on China-Serbia cooperation won widespread applause from Chinese netizens on Thursday, as he said China delivered at a time when no one wanted to deliver anything to his country to help Serbia fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
After opting not to join eight other countries, including the US in October 2020, in signing the Artemis Accords, a set of principles and norms for those who want to participate in the NASA-led Artemis lunar exploration program, Russia is reported to be in talks with China to work on details to determine the scientific tasks for a lunar base and to discuss technical aspects of the project's implementation, which is seen by Chinese observers as a conspicuous tilt toward China that is hardly surprising.
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi is delivering remarks at a virtual meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) concerning the COVID-19 vaccine distribution on Wednesday.
The Australian government has got a chronic mentality - anything related to China, even normal cultural or scientific exchanges, would cause malicious suspicion, said a Chinese expert, as Australian media reported that some top scientists' funding has been denied due to "habitual sinophobic sentiment."
As the World Health Organization expert team is busy finalizing the origins-tracing report after its visit to Wuhan, conspiracy theories have arisen in Western media trying to undermine the trustworthiness of the report. Observers said these politically driven acts will not benefit the science-based efforts to trace the virus origins, and called on the media to focus on what real progress has been made scientifically.
Amid the still-ravaging COVID-19 pandemic, a number of countries including Hungary, Senegal, Morocco and Zimbabwe have received a special Spring Festival gift from China - batches of coronavirus vaccines have arrived to aid the locals' fight against the deadly disease, which experts said serves as a strong rebuke to the Western media's claims of China giving an empty promise to those in need.
The Chinese Embassy in the UK on Wednesday slammed remarks by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in which he said that most of the evidence points to COVID-19 originating from Wuhan. The embassy said that politics should not override science, or replace scientific study with unwarranted speculation and deliberate distortion. Johnson said on Monday that he would be keen to agree a global treaty on pandemics to ensure proper transparency after the coronavirus outbreak “which originated in China,” amid British and US concern over access given to the World Health Organization (WHO) mission to China, reported Reuters.
China has lodged stern representations with Canada after the latter issued a so-called Declaration Against Arbitrary Detention with some other countries to pressure China, the Chinese embassy in Canada said, saying the Declaration distorted facts and urging Canada to correct its arbitrary detention of Meng Wanzhou.