This day, 22 October, in 2015, during President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the UK at the invitation of Queen Elizabeth II, China and the UK issued the “China-UK Joint Declaration on Building a Global Comprehensive Strategic Partnership for...
This day, 21 October, in 1995, at the invitation of United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, President Jiang Zemin attended the special meeting commemorating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations in New York and delivered a...
This day, 20 October, in 1996, President Ernesto Samper of the Republic of Colombia paid a state visit to China, the first by a Colombian head of state. During the visit, President Jiang Zemin said that the Chinese government...
It has been 10 long years in the waiting, but this summer I arrived; Xinjiang Tian Shan (新疆天山), the Heavenly Mountains. My Journey to the West was to begin.
Bikepacking out from Kuqa (库车), the land is barren with little...
This day, 19 October, in 1954, Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, visited the New China, accompanied by his daughter and future Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi. During discussions, Chairman Mao Zedong expressed his appreciation for India’s refusal to participate...
This day, 18 October, in 1956, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy became the first Pakistani Prime Minister to visit China. Meeting with Mao Zedeng, Zhou Enlai and others, both sides reaffirmed their confidence in the resolutions of the Bandung Conference and...
This day, 17 October, in 1980, Deng Xiaoping met with French President, Giscard d'Estaing. Deng Xiaoping said that the “multipolar politics” proposed by d'Estaing is an objective reality. Multipolarity requires unity. There is no leader or treaty, but rather...