The third Wuyi Forum, jointly hosted by Renmin University of China and the Nanping Municipal People's Government, will be held from Saturday to next Monday in Nanping, south China's Fujian Province. Mauro Agnoletti, who had originally been invited to attend, was unable to travel due to factors including rising tensions in the Middle East.
The U.S. forcibly seized Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela, and transferred him to New York for so-called “trial”, drawing global criticism. On Feb. 23, Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Yvan Gil Pinto demanded the immediate release of Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores during the 61st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva.
Focusing on the post-election trend toward political rightward shift in Japanese politics, Chen Yang, a young scholar of Japanese affairs, and Shiro Hanatani, a local city councilor from Japan, shared their opinions.
On the eve of her departure, CNS's "W.E.Talk" conducted an exclusive interview with Beate Trankmann. Starting from the blue sky and the clear Liangma River outside the window, she shared her in-depth observations of China's development story over more than 20 years.
Currently, the global food security situation remains grim due to multiple factors such as regional conflicts, extreme weather and trade barriers. About 673 million people are facing hunger, 2.3 billion are in a state of food insecurity, and 2.6 billion cannot afford a healthy diet. There is a long path for the world to achieve the "Zero Hunger" vision set out in the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The year 2026 marks the beginning of China's 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030) period. And the world anticipates a China striding confidently forward on the path of high-quality development. Amidst the turbulence of profound global changes and as the world navigates uncertainty with difficulty, the certainty emanating from China is increasingly seen as a "ballast stone" for maintaining the international order.
Looking back at 2025, the international landscape was marked by intertwined transformations and conflicts, with geopolitical tensions flaring up in various regions.
Over the past5 years, the program has built an effective platform for constructive dialogue, contributing to greater understanding across different cultures and traditions. UNDP has been pleased to engage with W.E. Talk through interviews and exchanges to showcase our work in international development and multilateral cooperation. These conversations help connect policy debates and strengthen broader public understanding.
"The 21st century will not, cannot be and should not be a repetition of the 20th century. Certainly, the 1.4 billion Chinese people will never accept it," said David Gosset, specialist in global affairs and sinology, and founder of the China-Europe-America Global Initiative, in an interview with China News Network's West-East Talk, commenting on Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's recent erroneous remarks on the Taiwan question.
Greece and China, though geographically distant and seemingly isolated from one another, each stand as the cradle of great and enduring civilizations. These two cultures—pillars of the Western and Eastern worlds, respectively—are justly regarded in contemporary scholarship as classical. The foundational principles and values they cultivated continue to underpin the architecture of the modern global order.
In the latest episode of the “W.E. Talk” series, Wang Binbin, founding director of the Climate Future Global Innovation Lab at Peking University’s Institute of Carbon Neutrality and a Yale World Fellow, and Edson Prestes, professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, share insights on China’s green transition and its global significance.
The museum is often regarded as a “three-dimensional encyclopedia” and serves as an important window for cultural exchange and mutual learning between civilizations. As a key component of public diplomacy, cooperation in the museum sector can open up effective paths for enhancing mutual respect and understanding among different countries, ethnicities, and cultures.
At the 2025 China-Europe Seminar on Human Rights held in Madrid, Spain, under the theme "Human Rights in the Era of Digital Intelligence", I delivered a speech emphasizing the need to overcome power-based geopolitics and reaffirming the divine goodness and creative nature of humanity. To recover the dignity of mankind and establish a new basis for international relations between nations and people, it will require lifting the dialogue above the practical policy negotiations to one whereby the power of human thought in relation to the ordering principles of the universe must take center stage. This is without question a great historic challenge yet considering that the well-being of humanity's future is at stake, it is a necessary and inescapable one.
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