Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 4 October

This day, 4 October, in 1988, Deng Xiaoping met with Helmut Schmidt, former German Chancellor. When Deng talked about what new order and principles could replace international relations, he said, “As far as my personal knowledge goes, what can...

On this Day in Chinese History; 3 October

This day, 3 October, in 2018, China signed the International Agreement to Prevent Unregulated Fishing in the High Seas of the Central Arctic Ocean. The State Council would go on to approve the Agreement, depositing the approval with Canada,...

On this Day in Chinese History; 2 October

This day, 2 October, in 1949, with a visiting Soviet and Korean delegation in attendance as witness, China in Beijing adopted the “Declaration of China’s Conference to Defend World Peace”, solemnly declaring to the world that the Chinese people...

On this Day in Chinese History; 1 October

This day, 1 October, in 2020, President Xi Jinping delivered an important speech via video at the High-level Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly commemorating the 25th anniversary of the World Conference on Women in Beijing, comprising a...

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Fuzhou; The Small Jiangxi City that Produced Nearly Three Thousand Imperial Scholars

Chinese sources tracking the imperial examination system estimate that roughly 100,000 jinshi degrees, the highest a scholar could earn,...

Ganzhou; Where China Rehearsed Being a Republic Eighteen Years Before It Actually Became One

Communist Party leaders proclaimed the Chinese Soviet Republic in Ruijin, a Ganzhou county town, in November 1931, complete with...

Yichun; The Zen Rule that Began with an Elderly Monk’s Hunger Strike

Monks at Baizhang Mountain hid their elderly abbot's farm tools one day, hoping to spare him physical labour; Baizhang...

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