The good old days returned on Monday as the borders between Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland reopened fully after three years, with daily quotas and COVID-19 tests dropped for travelers. People on both sides jumped on the first trains to the opposite side, some for work, some...More

On Monday, the first batch of Chinese outbound group tours after the pandemic departed from major cities across the nation, heading to destinations ranging from Thailand, Singapore to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) - for many, it's a day that ended a three-year anxious waiting. And for the...More

After three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, global businesses were glad to see Chinese visitors once again arriving at their local tourist attractions and shopping malls over the just concluded Spring Festival holidays and Lantern Festival. China has resumed agency-led outbound tour groups on Monday. In the early...More

Southeast Asian countries like Thailand and Laos were the first destinations for many Chinese tourists as China officially started a pilot program of outbound group tours to 20 countries, mostly Southeast Asian nations, on Monday. For Chinese travelers, the resumption offers a chance to travel the world again,...More

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday sent messages of condolence to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad respectively over strong earthquakes in the two countries. More than 2,000 deaths and thousands more injuries were reported as of the press time following the earthquake. On...More

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg concluded his trip to Asia last week, which is widely seen as a trip helping Washington rope in Tokyo and Seoul by hyping up the so-called threats from China and Russia. Through the trip, NATO wants its close partners in the region to...More

The Lowy Institute, a Sydney-based think tank, released the Asia Power Index for 2023 on Sunday. Created in 2018, the index measures powers based on 133 indicators across eight core themes. Since the index was launched in 2018, the US, China, Japan, India, and Russia, in that order,...More

The US and Japan have once again released a "sounding balloon" on the deployment of medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBMs) to US forces in Japan. Japanese media recently quoted sources saying that Washington has proposed to deploy such missiles in Japan as part of a plan to strengthen "defense...More

Over the past few days, American politicians and media have been foaming at the mouth in a cultivated mass hysteria against what they describe to be a "Chinese Spy Balloon." The Balloon, used for scientific metrological purposes, had passed over US airspace, and was ultimately shot down on...More

The Yinchuan, a Type 052D guided missile destroyer of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy, has conducted an exercise deep in the far sea that saw the vessel sailing for more than 10,000 nautical miles (18,520 kilometers) on its own, a move experts said on Monday displayed...More

Days after a four-star US Air Force general hyped that the US and China could be at war over the Taiwan question by 2025, a senior congressional Republican on Sunday expressed support for the reckless assessment, which Chinese experts believed is aimed at casting a shadow over planned...More

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin began separate visits to Asia recently, leaving Chinese analysts concerned about the strategic purpose of these visits. They believed that the US and NATO are trying to bring to Asia the "bloc-to-bloc confrontation," which has already led to...More

The past Chinese New Year holidays were always destined to be extra special, not only because millions of Chinese families finally gathered together, but also China's homemade sci-fi blockbuster The Wandering Earth II hit record-high box-office receipts and touched the hearts of many moviegoers, resonating with ordinary people...More

The COVID-19 epidemic in China has entered a period of low infection with new cases steadily declining, highlighting the effectiveness of prevention work after the country downgraded the management of COVID-19 from Class A to B, senior officials of the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Monday. As...More

Former British prime minister Boris Johnson said that the "Normandy format," in which Europe and Russia discussed the progress in settlement of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine, was a "diplomatic imitation." A few weeks earlier, the former German chancellor Angela Merkel said the same thing. In November, the...More