7 Days in Diplomacy; this Week in Chinese History

This day, 18 June, in 1978, at the invitation of the Pakistani government, Vice Premier Geng Biao led a Chinese government delegation to attend the completion ceremony of the Karakoram Highway. Together, tens of thousands of engineers and labourers...

This day, 17 June, 1967, China detonated its first hydrogen bomb over the west of the country, while the government declared that China will not be the first to use nuclear weapons at any time and under any circumstances....

This day, 16 June, in 1994, the Information Office of the State Council issued a white paper entitled, “The Status of Intellectual Property Protection in China”, expounding China’s intentions to abide by relevant international conventions and bilateral agreements on...

This day, 15 June, 1951, the first Sino-foreign joint venture of the People’s Republic of China was founded. The Chinese-Polish Joint Stock Shipping Company, known as Chipolbrok, would move its headquarters from Tianjin to Shanghai in 1962 and remains...

This day, 14 June, 1987, Indian Minister of External Affairs Narayan Datt Tiwari visited China after attending the Special Conference of Non-Aligned Countries in Pyongyang. Tiwari conveyed the message from the Indian government to Chinese Acting Premier Wan Li...

This day, 13 June in 1924, the Soviet government proposed to upgrade Sino-Soviet relations from the ministerial level to the ambassadorial level, and China welcomed it. The USSR therefore became the first country to send an ambassador to China....

This day, 12 June, 1987, Deng Xiaoping met with Yugoslav guests and expressed important opinions on China's reform issues. Deng said, “I advocate reform. There is no way out without reform. In the past, we copied foreign models, coupled...