Mr. President, I have the honor to speak on behalf of the Group of 77 and China. This mid-term review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is taking place at a time of extremely critical juncture, in which developing countries face multiple challenges and an unjust economic...more

In the eyes of some Westerners, China is accused of posing a "systematic challenge" to the "world order." However, failing to specifically articulate this challenge or threat, many across the West resort to citing a list of fabricated claims regarding China's internal political affairs including the status of...more

The crisis of the liberal model of running the world was inevitable. I warned of its results and alarming challenges that would fill the new century twenty years ago. My book “Globalization and the Destiny of Humankind” which was published at the time has been translated into many...more

A couple of days ago, a Quad summit meeting in Sydney scheduled for May 24 was abruptly canceled. The US president had to pull out of his long-anticipated trip to Australia and Papua New Guinea. Instead, the heads of the four Quad member states got together on the...more

On Monday, while delivering an important speech at the closing meeting of the first session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), Chinese President Xi Jinping pointed out that the relay baton of building a great modern socialist country and advancing national rejuvenation has been historically passed on...more

After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese government has given high priority to the preservation and promotion of their intangible cultural heritage. The legal and fiscal means are adopted for it. The trainings are being conducted for the local people by the...more

In December 2022, Wang Yi, then member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, state councilor and minister of foreign affairs, speaking at a symposium on Chinese diplomacy, said that for both the world and China, the outgoing 2022 is critical in bridging...more

At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is paying a state visit to China from Tuesday to Thursday. During the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, last September, the two heads of state held a bilateral meeting and announced to upgrade China-Belarus...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

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg started his visit to South Korea and Japan on Sunday, but the "gifts" he brings with him aren't good. During his trip to South Korea, he mainly discussed issues related to North Korea. He said that the visit demonstrated "the increased importance of...more

Just after Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang concluded his visit to Africa on Monday, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will visit three African countries this week. It has been the 33rd consecutive year in which Africa has been the destination of Chinese foreign ministers' annual first overseas visits,...more

The Russia-Ukraine conflict will continue to be the dominant flashpoint for 2023, both in terms of conflict resolution and sorting out the security consequences for Europe. There are three aspects to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, or as sometimes described the Russian conflict against the collective West. The first is...more

Editor's Note: The 2023 Global Times Annual Conference themed on "China and the World after the 20th CPC National Congress" was held in Beijing on Saturday. To understand the importance of China's stability to the changing world and explore what China should do to better grasp opportunities amid...more

On November 27, a BBC report on its own journalist Ed Lawrence caught the attention of many. The report claims that Ed Lawrence, a China correspondent posted in Shanghai, was "briefly arrested" for filming a gathering of the local people and was then taken away by the police...more

The better part of November saw the world's attention focussed on Sharm El-Sheikh, where the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference was held. More commonly referred to as the COP27, the meeting came at a time when the world is confronting the unprecedented impact of climate change, which...more