2026 marks the 35th anniversary of the establishment of China-ASEAN dialogue relations and the theme year of the 5th anniversary of the China-ASEAN Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. Along the way, bilateral cooperation has yielded fruitful results.
The year 2026 marks the fifth anniversary of the China-ASEAN Comprehensive Strategic Partnership and the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia.
The ocean belongs to all humanity as our shared home, and constitutes a key arena for global governance. Since its adoption, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) has played a pivotal role in enabling humanity to better understand, protect and utilize the ocean.
"I hope the World Conference of Classics will not end in Beijing, but begin there."
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Tuesday that the combat operation against Iran has ended. Earlier, the U.S. government said Washington would deal with Iran first and then Cuba. Recently, the U.S. has intensified sanctions on Cuba.
The Islam-Confucianism Civilisational Dialogue 2026 was held in Beijing on Thursday. This year's dialogue, themed "The Idea of Global Civilisation: Islamic and Confucian Perspectives", was jointly hosted by the International Confucian Association (ICA) and the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM).
Geopolitical conflict is reshaping the international economy in more direct ways. In late March, continued fighting in the Middle East disrupted the Strait of Hormuz, a critical corridor that carries about 20 percent of global oil and gas shipments, while Brent crude prices rose to their highest level since July 2022.
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.
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