7 Days in Diplomacy; this Week in Chinese History

This day, 25 June, in 1998, US President Bill Clinton made a visit China, the first by a sitting US president in nearly a decade. With Chinese President Jiang Zemin paying a state visit to the US in 1997,...

This day, 24 June in 1960, at a meeting of representatives of 12 socialist countries held in Bucharest, Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev from out of nowhere made serious accusations against the Communist Party of China. Such...

This day, 23 June, in 1992, international trains started running between Urumqi and Almaty, marking the opening of road, air and rail transport between China and the Republic of Kazakhstan. Cutting the ribbon, Chinese Vice Premier Wu Xueqian said...

This day, 22 June, 1979, the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of Ireland established diplomatic relations. Ireland has since benefitted greatly from its relationship with China, to the extent of marking the diplomatic relations’ anniversary in 2019...

This day, 21 June, in 1956, the Supreme People's Procuratorate of China announced that 1,017 Japanese war criminals would be exempted from prosecution and released back to Japan in batches. 45 war criminals gulty of particularly serious crimes were...

This day, 20 June, in 2016, President Xi Jinping and Polish President Andrzej Sebastian Duda jointly attended a ceremony marking the arrival of the first China-Europe Railway Express in Warsaw, Poland. Demand for freight along the route has significantly...

This day, 19 June, 1931, Pearl Buck’s novel “The Good Earth” was published. Translated in to more than 100 languages and distributed worldwide, the novel  won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932, while Buck herself won the Nobel...