7 Days in Diplomacy; this Week in Chinese History

This day, 11 January, 1964, Premier Zhou Enlai visited Ghana, where there had been an assassination attempt on President Kwame Nkrumaha. Regardless of the danger, Zhou resolutely decided to continue the visit, suggesting a break in the rules of...

This day, 10 January, in 1997, China vetoed a United Nations’ Security Council plan to send 155 United Nations military observers to monitor the Guatemala peace accords, its representative to the UN arguing the proposal undermined China’s sovereignty and...

This day, 9 January, 1965, Chairman Mao Zedong met with the American writer Edgar Snow, an old friend of China, and had a discussion on the world’s main contradictions, the Vietnam War, nuclear proliferation and the restoration of China’s...

This day, 8 January, in 1938, Canadian doctor Norman Bethune led a medical team from Vancouver to China to support Chinese people in the Second Sino-Japanese War. He actively treated both soldiers and civilians to later die in the...

This day, 7 January, 1978, when Deng Xiaoping met with a delegation of members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, he clearly proposed the possibility of China’s “two-handed” solution to the Taiwan issue, striving to use...

This day, 6 January, in 1972, Marshal Chen Yi, Vice Premier of the State Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs, passed away. Chen had a distinctive personality with broad ideas, profound knowledge and keen eyesight. At a press conference...

This day, 5 January, in 1950, U.S. President Harry S. Truman issued a statement reaffirming previous international resolutions on the Taiwan issue, stating that he would not interfere in China’s internal affairs and confirming the principles towards China reiterated...