7 Days in Diplomacy; this Week in Chinese History

This day, 27 March, in 2017, during Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to New Zealand, China and New Zealand signed the “Memorandum of Arrangement between the Government of the People’s Republic of China and the Government of New Zealand on...

This day, 26 March, 1987, the governments of China and Portugal initialed the “Joint Statement on the Question of Macau”, which stated that the government of the People’s Republic of China will resume the exercise of sovereignty over Macau...

This day, 25 March, in 2018, Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of North Korea, paid an unofficial visit to China. In Beijing, Kim met for the historic...

This day, 24 March, in 2014, President Xi Jinping attended the third Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague, Netherlands, and delivered a speech in which he proposed for the first time that a rational, coordinated and progressive nuclear security...

This day, 23 March, 2013, President Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the Moscow Institute of International Relations during his state visit to Russia entitled, “Follow the Trend of the Times and Promote Peace and Development in the...

This day, 22 March, 1928, Mao Zedong issued the “3 Major Disciplines and 8 Points for Attention” to the revolutionary army units in Jinggang Shan. As the earliest of Chinese Communist military regulations, the discipline became an important part...

This day, 21 March, in 1960, South African police shot and killed 69 people who were participating in a peaceful demonstration against apartheid’s “pass laws” in Sharpeville. 6 years later, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 21 March as...