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Born
24 Apr 1970
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Spokeswoman, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China
China trade
China has logged a US$1 trillion trade surplus. Where is all that money going?
Trade surplus growth has not been matched in foreign exchange reserves – a gap analysts said can be explained by private sector outflows.
29 Dec 2025 - 9:00PM
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South China Sea
Senior Chinese diplomat takes swipe at US over deep-sea mining strategy
2 Dec 2025 - 2:20AM
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Hong Kong politics
World’s first intergovernmental mediation body launched in Hong Kong
20 Oct 2025 - 10:58PM
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China-EU relations
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EU leaders plan trip to Beijing in July for summit with Xi
No date confirmed with the Chinese side as travel plan indicates serious effort to re-engage amid collapsed relationship with the US.
11 Apr 2025 - 5:38AM
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China-EU relations
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Your best friend has abandoned you: inside China’s EU charm offensive
As bloc’s ties with US plummet over Donald Trump’s embrace of Russia, Beijing pitches itself as a more reliable partner than Washington.
28 Feb 2025 - 8:06PM
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China-UK relations
Wang Yi sends free trade message at revived UK-China Strategic Dialogue
Ministerial talks brought back to life in London as Starmer’s government pursues a more pragmatic China policy.
14 Feb 2025 - 12:16PM
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Diplomacy
Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman promoted to vice-minister
Hua Chunying, who has been a foreign ministry spokeswoman since 2012, is the youngest of the five vice-foreign ministers and the only woman.
27 May 2024 - 4:03PM
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US-China relations
China says it wants to get relations with US ‘back on the right track’
Beijing makes the remarks just hours before Joe Biden’s inauguration as president, but analysts say Washington will continue to see China as a major threat.
14 Aug 2023 - 4:20PM
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Diplomacy
Wolf Warriors in the West: how China’s diplomats are taking to Twitter
Are foreign affairs spokespeople and other Chinese diplomats creating bold social media posts outside official channels in Beijing or is it part of a grand plan?
14 Aug 2023 - 4:20PM
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Diplomacy
China’s Wolf Warriors are like Simba from Lion King, its foreign ministry says
Spokeswoman Hua Chunying compares diplomats to Disney’s ‘cute little lion, who, under all sorts of suspicion … grew up and matured into Simba’.
14 Aug 2023 - 4:20PM
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Social media
Want to be a Chinese diplomat? Program emulates ‘Wolf Warrior’ rhetoric
Chinese diplomats have been taking a more aggressive stance on Twitter this year and a GitHub text generator is here to help.
14 Aug 2023 - 4:19PM
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China ventures outside the Great Firewall, only to hit a brick wall
Officials are starting to realise that, unlike on Chinese social media, they can’t manipulate public opinion on Twitter without being challenged. Instead, their accounts come under heavy scrutiny, their views are opposed and they attract trolls.
14 Aug 2023 - 4:19PM
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Canada
Sarcasm is China’s latest weapon in battle with Canada over detainees
Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying says Canada’s foreign minister Chrystia Freeland ‘can’t help speaking without thinking’. Hua also said it was understandable that Canada was ‘a little worried’ about detentions of its citizens by Beijing.
14 Aug 2023 - 4:19PM
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