Chinese VP calls for solid actions revitalizing China-US Ping-Pong Diplomacy spirit

China expresses serious concerns over Japan's deployment of long-range missiles in Kumamoto and Shizuoka prefectures, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Wednesday.

​UN mandate-related reform should focus on achieving tangible results while steering clear of formalism and bureaucratic practices and avoiding past pitfalls, such as creating redundant and overlapping structures, a Chinese envoy said Tuesday.

​Demonstrations were held in Japan on Tuesday evening as citizens voiced strong opposition to the government's decision to deploy long-range missiles in the country.

The Palestinian Presidency on Monday condemned the approval of a law by the Israeli parliament that would allow the execution of Palestinian prisoners convicted of "terrorism."

​Russia does not accept a temporary truce in the conflict in Ukraine and instead calls for lasting peace, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday.

​U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. military will leave Iran in two or three weeks.

​Six crew members and 23 passengers were killed when a Russian An‑26 military transport plane crashed in Crimea, the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed early Wednesday.

​Britain will provide additional air defense support to Gulf partners as regional tensions continue to escalate, according to a statement released by the British government on Tuesday.

​Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Tuesday that mediation efforts of the Pakistani side regarding the Middle East tensions are in the common interests of all parties.

​China and Pakistan put forward a five-point initiative for restoring peace and stability in the Gulf and Middle East region during talks between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar in Beijing on Tuesday.

​An Iranian official said Tuesday that U.S. and Israeli airstrikes have destroyed several historic buildings and damaged universities across Iran.

China firmly opposes armed attacks against peaceful nuclear facilities under the safeguards and monitoring of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), advocating the peaceful settlement of the Iranian nuclear issue through political and diplomatic means, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday.

​The international community needs to stay on high alert against the rightward turn of Japan's Self-Defense Forces (SDF) and trend of remilitarization in Japan, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday.

​China's top legislator Zhao Leji met with a high-level delegation of the Austria-China Friendship Association, led by Austrian Federal Council President Markus Stotter, in Beijing on Tuesday.

​Exchanges between legislative bodies are an important part of China-EU relations, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Tuesday.

​Seated at a console inside a hospital in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Piotr Suwalski, a Polish doctor, fixed his gaze on the screen ahead of him while manipulating a surgical robot located more than 7,000 km away in Poland.

​Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held talks with Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar on the Iran situation in Beijing on Tuesday.

Australia's public broadcaster, the ABC, recently published an article titled "China doesn't want its politicians talking with reporters. Here's what happened when we tried." It recounts the writer's experience covering China's national Two Sessions in early March as a new correspondent in Beijing. As a Chinese reporter who has covered the Two Sessions, China's most important annual political event, several times, I want to start by giving this peer some genuine credit and then share my experiences.

The University of Sheffield held a graduation ceremony in Beijing on March 29 — one of its first such events in China in over a decade. The president of the university also traveled to Beijing to attend.

Three Chinese vessels have navigated through the Strait of Hormuz recently with the facilitation and coordination of relevant sides, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning confirmed on Tuesday.