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Opening ceremony of 10th anniversary of BRI and Kazakhstan-China commodity exhibition Photo: Courtesy of the Kazakhstan Embassy in China In order to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the Consulate General of Kazakhstan in Xi’an in conjunction with the Shaanxi Provincial People’ Government launched the Kazakhstan-China Commodity Exhibition which opened…

A wonderful acrobatic show performed by Hunan Acrobatic Art Theatre Photo: Hou Xiangjun/Global Times A special acrobatic show themed Another Youth for diplomatic envoys in China was held in Beijing on Wednesday. Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong attended the event and delivered a speech. A total of 13 ambassadors in China from Bangladesh, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan,…

The aquarium of Magic City in Tashkent, Uzbekistan / Korea Times photo by Ko Dong-hwan Landing at Tashkent International Airport on a blindingly sunny afternoon, one can expect to feel the heat rising from baked asphalt under the strong sunlight and amid countless passing vehicles. Another local scene that somehow relieves the beholder of the…

Japan, the first feeder of NATO in Asia. Cartoon: Vitaly Podvitski Japan continues to hype “China threat” theory in its annual defense white paper after the G7 summit that witnessed intensive activities to smear and attack China. This, according to Chinese observers, further revealed Japan’s conspiracy to collaborate and hijack other countries and regions to…

Editor’s Note: In his report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, proposed to comprehensively advance the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts through a Chinese path to modernization – a modernization of a huge population, of common…

An instructor checks the students’ calligraphy works at the China Cultural Center in Yangon, Myanmar, May 23, 2023. Some students in Myanmar have spent much of the summer vacation learning Chinese calligraphy at the China Cultural Center in Yangon.(Photo by Myo Kyaw Soe/Xinhua) Some students in Myanmar have spent much of the summer vacation learning…

A band parades at a street fair in Beirut, Lebanon, on May 21, 2023. (Xinhua/Liu Zongya)   Tens of thousands of Lebanese on Sunday visited the famous Gemmayzeh Street in the capital city of Beirut to enjoy the festive and joyful atmosphere of a grand street fair that gathered more than 300 craftsmen, designers and…

Photo: VCG When responding to concerns about Japan’s dumping of nuclear-contaminated water on Monday, Rafael Mariano Grossi, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director general, said nothing that is not in perfect compliance with international safety standards will happen. Grossi told the Global Times and other media outlets that the IAEA takes all concerns seriously, looks…

China + Central Asia (C+C5) Photo: VCG   Editor’s Note: The China-Central Asia Summit, the first major diplomatic event hosted by China this year and the first ever in-person summit between the leaders of China and the five Central Asian countries, is being held in Xi’an, Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, between May 18 and 19….

Leaflet for a Japanese civic campaign protesting against the plan to dump nuclear-contaminated wastewater Photo: Xu Keyue/GT Although Japan suffered a lot from the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in WWII as well as the Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011, the Japanese government has seemingly failed to learn from history and insists on…