Frank Hossack

Excitement in the air is tangible as up to 2,000 people discover they are now back online. For this is not a plane where flight mode can be more or less ignored; it’s the middle of the ocean, and...

Ferries do not run here anymore, but the crowd on the Broken Bridge does not seem to mind. By eight each morning, tour groups are already three deep at the ticket gate, ¥30 apiece, craning for a look at...

This day, 24 August, in 2020, Duan Jielong was elected as one of the 21 judges sitting on the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea for a term of 9 years. The Tribunal is an international judicial...

Twice a day, the sea at Jinzhou Bay pulls back and a stone path appears, joining an island to the coast. Visitors wait hours for the moment, then hurry back before the tide swallows the crossing again. 每天两次,锦州湾的海水会退去,一条石路随之显现,将一座岛屿与海岸连接起来。游客常常等候数小时,只为这一刻,随后又要赶在潮水吞没通道之前匆匆返回。 The island is...

This day, 23 August, in 1884, the opening engagement in the Battle of Fuzhou took place, fought between the navies of France and Qing-Dynasty China. Officers and sailors of the Chinese ships died heroically; the entire Fujian Navy was...

This day, 22 August, in 1659, the Polish Jesuit and missionary, Michał Boym, passed away. As one of the first European scientists to visit East Asia, Boym had created the first systematic botanical encyclopedia about China, the “Flora Sinensis”,...

This day, 21 August, in 2014, President Xi Jinping and Mongolian President Elbegdorj Tsakhia signed the “Joint Declaration on the Establishment & Development of a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the People’s Republic of China and Mongolia” in Ulaanbaatar. 2014年8月21日的这一天，习近平主席和蒙古总统Elbegdorj Tsakhia在乌兰巴托签署了《中华人民共和国和蒙古建立和发展全面战略伙伴关系的联合声明》。

Travellers between China and Australia may soon have another part way across the Pacific. Nanjing has emerged as the leading candidate for direct flights to Canberra, potentially connecting two capital cities while opening a new gateway between China and...