Not ready to call it quits: PLA veteran asks to continue serving

The Road to Victory: Victory lies in the coordinates

American filmmaker and photographer, J.J. Osbun offers a simple way of looking at the Diaoyu Dao dispute. Using a stolen watch as an analogy, he asks whether possession alone can create ownership – a question that lies at the heart of competing claims over the islands.

Tatsushiro Koga is widely described in Japan as the first person to discover Diaoyu Dao. But contemporary records, including accounts linked to his own business partners, paint a more complicated picture.

In the past few days, around China's Huangyan Dao, warships and aircraft rehearsed control of the sea and air, coast guard officers practiced intercepting and towing intruding vessels, and new rules drew stricter legal boundaries around a national nature reserve. These actions came as the

A tourist walks past an installation on Bajing Street, Shenyang City, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Aug. 1, 2026.

A drone photo taken on Aug. 2, 2026 shows staff members clearing a road blocked by a landslide in Caoping Village of Fengxiang Township in Longnan, northwest China's Gansu Province. Longnan in northwest China's Gansu Province has activated Level II emergency response for flood control due to widespr

The State Administration of Foreign Exchange on Sunday said in a statement released after its work conference that it will continue to steadily expand institutional opening-up in the foreign exchange sector in the second half of this year.The administration will promote nationwide the facilitation

China's central bank said Sunday that it will continue to implement a moderately loose monetary policy in the second half (H2) of 2026, strengthen counter-cyclical adjustment, and take solid steps to promote sustained and improved economic development.

A Chinese industry association has voiced strong opposition to the United States' decision to add 43 Chinese companies, including cotton textile firms, to the so-called "Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List," saying the move seriously violates the basic rules of international trade.

Some Western media outlets have recently targeted China's cost-effective artificial intelligence (AI) large language models with a flurry of far-fetched skepticism and even broadside, in a bid to slow down the growth of China's AI industry.

The annual Han Kuang military drills of the Taiwan region are set to kick off on Wednesday, with certain media of the island hyping up highlights that they claimed as "the first time."

In pics: Ming'antu observing station of the National Space Science Center in N China

China’s National Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters and the Ministry of Emergency Management on Sunday activated a Level IV flood control emergency response for Beijing and Hebei Province, the Global Times learned from the Ministry of Emergency Management.

Langya Mountain scenic area in E China sees summer tourism boom