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2021/07/19 The Paper: State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi paid a visit to Syria on July 17. Could you share more information on it, including the outcomes reached? Zhao Lijian: Syria was the first stop on State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yis Middle East trip. During the visit, he met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and held talks with Foreign Minister Faisal al-Mekdad, with whom he also attended the signing ceremony of bilateral cooperation documents. As State Councilor ...

Transcript Of Press Conference By US Secretary Of The Treasury Janet L. Yellen Following The Close Of The G20 Finance Ministers And Central Bank Governors Meetings Date 11/07/2021 Thank you all for joining us.  I’d like to start by thanking the Italian government, especially Minister Franco and Governor Visco.  They’ve been wonderful hosts. At the end of our G7 meetings last month, I said that I believed we were seeing a revival of multilateralism.  Then, ten days ago, we got word t...

It's a tale of two worlds. Vaccines and clement spring weather easing lockdown restrictions in the West while new variants spread in unvaccinated Asia, Africa and Latin America. Are superpower tensio…

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijians Regular Press Conference on May 26, 2021 2021/05/26 The Paper: Recently, several US officials claimed that Chinas investigation on virus origin-tracing lacked transparency, and called for a comprehensive and experts-led investigation on the origin of the coronavirus. Do you have any comment? Zhao Lijian: Origin-tracing of the virus is a scientific issue. The purpose is to improve humans understanding of the virus and better guard against infectious dis...

Netflix Thai drama Girl from Nowhere sparks backlash in China over use of Taiwan, Hong Kong flag The flags, which were also accompanied with those of Singapore and other markets, were posted along "Thank you" messages in local languages. May 20, 2021 07:10 BST Popular Netflix Thai drama "Girl from Nowhere" has become the latest target of Chinese nationalism on the internet, for treating Taiwan and Hong Kong as separate countries by using their flags. According to a report in the Associated Pres...

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunyings Regular Press Conference on May 10, 2021 2021/05/10 T he second China+Central Asia (C+C5) foreign ministers meeting will be held in Xian, Shaanxi Province on May 12. State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will host the meeting. Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tileuberdi, Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Ruslan Kazakbaev, Tajik Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Muhriddin, Turkmen Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Rashid Meredo...

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijians Regular Press Conference on April 28, 2021 2021/04/28 Fuji TV: On your Tweet about Japans disposal of nuclear wastewater, the Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Japan has lodged solemn representations and asked for the deletion of the Tweet. Do you have a comment? Will you delete it? Zhao Lijian: illustrator . It shows that the original by Mr. Katsushika Hokusai is quite well-known in China and the Chinese people understand much about th...

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijians Regular Press Conference on April 13, 2021 2021/04/13 CCTV: On April 11, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in an interview that in the early stages of COVID-19, China "didnt do what it needed to do, which was to, in real time, give access to international experts, in real time to share information, in real time to provide real transparency". What is your comment on his remarks? Zhao Lijian: In the face of the sudden onslaught of the epidemic c...

Early last summer, Chinese and Indian armies clashed in a surprise border battle in the remote Galwan Valley, bashing each other to death with rocks and clubs. Four months later and more than 1,500 miles away in Mumbai, rains shut down and the stock market closed as the power went out in a city of 20 million people. Hospitals had to switch to emergency generators to keep ventilators running amid a coronavirus outbreak that was among India’s worst. Now, a new study lends weight to the idea tha...

iPolitics By Kady OMalley. Published on Feb 21, 2021 4:00pm Then-U.S. vice president Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a meeting of first ministers in Ottawa in December 2016. (Matthew Usherwood/iPolitics) U.S. President Joe Biden in December, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has secured his first face-to-face meeting with the new resident of the White House. But, unlike his instantly historic state visit to Washington at the invitation of then-president Barack Obama, he...