7 Days in Diplomacy; this Week in Chinese History

This day, 14 December, in 1963, Premier Zhou Enlai began his famous “Asia Africa 14 Country Tour”, visiting Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Ghana, Mali, Guinea, Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia, as well as Albania, Myanmar, Pakistan and Ceylon (now Sri...

This day, 13 December, in 1937, saw the start of the Nanjing Massacre, as the Japanese army took the city following their earlier capture of Shanghai. No less than 300,000 Chinese civilians were killed, many of them brutally and...

This day, 12 December, in 1946, in accordance with the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation, the Chinese Navy dispatched two warships, the “Taiping” and the “Zhongye”, to declare sovereignty over the Nansha Islands. After sailors and marines landed,...

This day, 11 December, in 1991, Premier Li Peng paid an official goodwill visit to India. Speaking with the Hindustan Times before leaving, Li said that in the then current volatile international situation, a heads of government meeting to...

This day, 10 December, in 1931, the League of Nations Council passed a resolution to send a survey team to Northeast China to investigate the issue of Japanese armed invasion. Headed by British politician Victor Bulwer-Lytton, the survey’s conclusions...

This day, 9 December, 1942, Indian doctor Dwarkanath Kotnis passed away. To his outstanding contributions in enhancing the friendship between China and India, Mao Zedong said, “The army has lost a helping hand, the nation has lost a friend....

This day, 8 December, 1941, the Pacific War broke out, with the United States and Britain declaring war on Japan. China also officially declared war on Japan, Germany and Italy. As a result, the Chinese people’s War of Resistance...