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On this Day in Chinese History; 5 October

This day, 5 October, in 1961, China and Nepal signed a boundary treaty in Beijing, which came immediately into effect. Based on the China-Nepal Boundary Agreement of the previous year, and in accordance with the “Five Principles of Peaceful...

On this Day in Chinese History; 4 October

This day, 4 October, in 1988, Deng Xiaoping met with Helmut Schmidt, former German Chancellor. When Deng talked about what new order and principles could replace international relations, he said, “As far as my personal knowledge goes, what can...

On this Day in Chinese History; 3 October

This day, 3 October, in 2018, China signed the International Agreement to Prevent Unregulated Fishing in the High Seas of the Central Arctic Ocean. The State Council would go on to approve the Agreement, depositing the approval with Canada,...

On this Day in Chinese History; 2 October

This day, 2 October, in 1949, with a visiting Soviet and Korean delegation in attendance as witness, China in Beijing adopted the “Declaration of China’s Conference to Defend World Peace”, solemnly declaring to the world that the Chinese people...

On this Day in Chinese History; 1 October

This day, 1 October, in 2020, President Xi Jinping delivered an important speech via video at the High-level Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly commemorating the 25th anniversary of the World Conference on Women in Beijing, comprising a...

On this Day in Chinese History; 30 September

This day, 30 September, in 1988, Premier Li Peng delivered a National Day speech in which he noted that the USA and USSR had signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, while the latter had begun to withdraw its troops...

On this Day in Chinese History; 29 September

This day, 29 September, in 1954, Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, led a Soviet government delegation to Beijing pay a state visit and upon the invitation to participate...

On this Day in Chinese History; 28 September

This day, 28 September, in 1952, Mongolian Prime Minister, Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, led a delegation to visit China and became the first foreign head of government to do so since the founding of PRC. He received a high-level reception, with...

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