China's delegation strongly rebutted Japan's remarks on the Taiwan question, the South China Sea and the so-called "China threat" narrative during ASEAN-related foreign ministers' meetings held in Manila, stressing that the Taiwan question is an internal Chinese affair and urging external forces to stop provoking tensions in the region. During the East Asia Summit Foreign […]

A previous video footage obtained by the Global Times exclusively on Saturday shows a Philippine military service member making a series of provocative gestures toward a Chinese vessel, including pulling down his trousers and exposing his buttocks in an apparent act of insult. Optical equipment aboard the Chinese vessel captured the incident during maritime monitoring […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping presented the country's top sci-tech award and delivered an important speech at a meeting in Beijing on Wednesday. The meeting brings together the national science and technology award conference, the general assemblies of the members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the 11th national […]

Typhoon Maysak-triggered torrential rain and flooding in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region have left 39 dead and nine missing, including 26 deaths from the Liulan Reservoir breach in Nanning city, local officials announced at a flood control and disaster relief press briefing on Thursday. They said identity verification of the deceased and search efforts […]

Friday witnessed another historic moment in China's space program which unfolded over the South China Sea. At 12:15 pm Beijing time, the Long March 10B carrier rocket lifted off from the Hainan commercial space launch site, successfully placing its satellite payload into the designated orbit and completing its maiden flight mission. Approximately six minutes after […]

Typhoon Bavi, the ninth typhoon of the year, landed on the coast of east China's Zhejiang Province at around 11:20 p.m. Saturday, according to the Zhejiang provincial meteorological observatory. The typhoon, with the maximum wind force at its center reaching 40 meters per second when landing, first churned ashore at Yuhuan City, a county-level city […]

The Communist Party of China (CPC) has led the Chinese people in writing the most magnificent epic in the millennia-long history of the Chinese nation through unremitting endeavors, said Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, on Wednesday. Xi, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks when […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Beijing on Monday. China and Belarus should maintain strategic communication, and promote the continuous progress of bilateral relations that are already running at a high level to better benefit the people of the two countries, Xi stressed, according to Xinhua News Agency. China supports […]

No deaths were reported and 13 people sustained minor injuries as of 3:30 a.m. Monday after a 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Gaoxian County in Yibin City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, local authorities said Monday. The injured have been sent to hospitals for treatment, and 196 others have been relocated. Relief efforts are underway in an orderly […]

The China-proposed Global Governance Initiative provides a Chinese solution to the global governance deficit and sheds new light on how to strengthen and improve the work of the United Nations Human Rights Council, a Chinese envoy has said. Jia Guide, China's permanent representative and ambassador to the United Nations Office at Geneva and other international […]