https://www.scmp.com/rss/520281/feed Maple Leung is currently pursuing a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration and a minor in Political Economy at the University of California, Berkeley. Before interning at the Post, she worked as an intern with several local politicians in the California Bay Area. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has thanked China for supporting his country’s territorial integrity and emphasised the two nations’ improving bilateral relations amid China’s intensified efforts to mediate peace, Kyiv said. Zelensky delivered the remarks when accepting a letter of credence from China’s ambassador Ma Shengkun on Monday. “Before the war Ukraine and China had a large volume of trade. Of course, we want it to be restored and our relations to be stronger in more areas,”... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3292169/ukraine-war-zelensky-thanks-china-supporting-territorial-integrity?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3292169/ukraine-war-zelensky-thanks-china-supporting-territorial-integrity?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 24 Dec 2024 09:19:05 +0000 China and India should work harder to promote exchanges and bridge the perception gap between two countries, according to a leading Chinese expert on South Asia. Zhang Jiadong, director of the South Asian Studies Centre at Fudan University, said the level of people-to-people and cultural exchanges between China and India lagged “far behind”, considering the strength and international status of the two Asian powers. This has resulted in “ambiguity and uncertainty” in their understanding of each... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3292056/can-cultural-exchanges-fix-ambiguity-and-uncertainty-china-india-ties?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3292056/can-cultural-exchanges-fix-ambiguity-and-uncertainty-china-india-ties?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 23 Dec 2024 11:21:25 +0000 China has been urged to “play a greater role” in bringing peace to the Middle East, with more than 20 Arab diplomatic envoys meeting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing. “The situation in the Middle East has changed suddenly, and the people in the region are suffering. We expect China to play a greater role in easing the situation,” the envoys were quoted as saying by a Chinese foreign ministry statement issued after the meeting on Thursday. Wang stressed that the region belonged to its... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3291697/arab-states-urge-china-play-greater-role-bringing-peace-middle-east?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3291697/arab-states-urge-china-play-greater-role-bringing-peace-middle-east?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 20 Dec 2024 08:04:26 +0000 Archaeologists working at the vast tomb of the famous terracotta warriors in China’s northwest Shaanxi province have unearthed a mysterious life-size figure believed to be that of a senior military official. The statue, discovered at the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the Qin dynasty, under which China was unified after centuries of political turmoil, is the first of its kind to be found at a site known as pit No 2, according to Zhu Sihong, head of the excavation... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3291332/mysterious-terracotta-commander-offers-new-clues-chinas-ancient-qin-dynasty-army?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3291332/mysterious-terracotta-commander-offers-new-clues-chinas-ancient-qin-dynasty-army?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 18 Dec 2024 07:03:14 +0000 In February last year, in an incident that threatened already fragile US-China ties, the US shot down what Washington said was a Chinese spy balloon threatening its sovereignty while China countered that the craft was a stray civilian device. Three months later, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan and China’s foreign policy chief Wang Yi met in secret in Vienna where for two days they had “frank, in-depth, substantive and constructive” discussions to stabilise the decline in relations,... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3291063/how-backchannel-diplomacy-helped-us-and-china-emerge-shadow-balloon-incident?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3291063/how-backchannel-diplomacy-helped-us-and-china-emerge-shadow-balloon-incident?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:10:38 +0000 Chinese archaeologists have made distilled wine in a replica of a bronze vessel unearthed from an emperor’s tomb dating back 2,000 years – using taro and the same process believed to have been used at the time. The bronze still was discovered at the tomb of Liu He, the deposed ninth emperor of the Western Han dynasty (202BC-AD9). It is one of the best preserved tombs from that dynasty. The team presented the results of their experiment on Thursday at a meeting attended by experts in Nanchang, in... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3290709/team-makes-distilled-wine-replica-bronze-vessel-found-emperors-tomb?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3290709/team-makes-distilled-wine-replica-bronze-vessel-found-emperors-tomb?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 13 Dec 2024 10:02:48 +0000 American foreign policy specialists are being pushed to appear more hawkish towards China than they actually are because of professional and social pressures, a new survey has concluded. It said there is “a degree of pluralistic ignorance in the foreign policy community, where people overestimate the level of consensus, inflate the level of threat, and believe collective opinion to be more confrontational than it really is”. The authors, Michael Cerny, a PhD student in the Department of... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3290375/peer-pressure-may-be-fuelling-hawkish-stances-china-among-foreign-policy-elite?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3290375/peer-pressure-may-be-fuelling-hawkish-stances-china-among-foreign-policy-elite?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 11 Dec 2024 12:46:47 +0000 India and China have pledged to reflect on the lessons learned from their border stand-off in 2020, while emphasising the need for regular communication to prevent a recurrence. The resolution came at the first diplomatic talks under a key dialogue mechanism since both sides withdrew from two face-off points along their disputed western Himalayan border. “The two sides positively affirmed the implementation of the most recent [troop] disengagement agreement which completed the resolution of the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3289760/china-india-vow-learn-lessons-deadly-2020-border-clash-keep-talking-avert-rerun?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3289760/china-india-vow-learn-lessons-deadly-2020-border-clash-keep-talking-avert-rerun?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 06 Dec 2024 12:59:26 +0000