China's National Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters, together with multiple ministries and local governments, convened a joint consultation to assess the track of Typhoon Bavi, and coordinate flood and typhoon prevention efforts, China's Central Television (CCTV) News reported Thursday.
Bavi, the ninth typhoon of the year, is expected to make landfall on or skirt northern Taiwan island on Saturday during the day before approaching coastal areas from central Fujian to southern Zhejiang, bringing strong winds, torrential rains and a high risk of secondary disasters. With a broad impact range and potential to move northward and affect inland regions, the overall flood control situation remains severe.
According to forecasts, Bavi may make landfall in China twice. After landfall, it will continue moving northwestward and gradually weaken.
Bavi's impact has already begun to emerge. According to China's National Meteorological Center (NMC), from 2 pm Thursday to 2 pm Friday, winds in the Bashi Channel, Taiwan Straits, waters east of Taiwan and the southeastern East China Sea will gradually strengthen to 6-8 grades. Some areas east of Taiwan could see winds of 9-10 grades, with gusts reaching 11-12 grades.
The NMC upgraded its typhoon warning to orange on Thursday. Bavi has now approached the 24-hour warning line, which indicates that a typhoon is expected to have a significant impact on China within 24 hours after making a landfall. After a typhoon enters the 24-hour warning line, meteorological authorities will monitor the storm on an hourly basis, track its movement and provide updates on its latest conditions.
Ma Jun, director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, said the 24-hour warning line is a maritime alert boundary established by meteorological authorities for typhoon defense. Once a typhoon enters this area, it indicates that it is highly likely to bring significant impacts to China's coastal regions within 24 hours, while the confidence of track forecasts will also increase. Relevant coastal areas should enter a key defense phase, including returning vessels to ports for shelter, suspending offshore operations and relocating residents in high-risk areas.
Authorities stressed the need to further strengthen monitoring and early warning systems, closely track developments in rainfall, flooding and wind conditions, and promptly issue alerts for heavy rain, flash floods, river flooding and geological disasters. They also called for strict implementation of a direct warning and response mechanism to ensure alerts reach frontline communities, and for the prompt evacuation of people in threatened areas.
Ma said Bavi is among the most powerful and largest storms seen this year. Its maximum central wind speed has reached grades 16-17, while its cloud circulation has a diameter exceeding 1,000 kilometers and approaching 1,200 kilometers at its peak. The storm has maintained super typhoon intensity for nearly five days, featuring a well-defined eye, developed spiral cloud bands and a highly stable structure, he added.
Ma noted that Bavi's exceptional strength and long duration have resulted from multiple favorable conditions. The storm has passed over waters with high sea surface temperatures, providing abundant energy for its development. Meanwhile, plentiful moisture and a strong southwest monsoon have continuously supplied water vapor, while weak vertical wind shear and limited external interference have helped maintain its stable structure.
Authorities also called for advance deployment of emergency communication teams, state-owned enterprise engineering rescue forces and power supply support teams to prepare for possible extreme scenarios involving disruptions to transportation, power and communications.
Bavi's large size and abundant energy mean its remnants and outer rainbands could move from Jiangsu and Anhui provinces toward the Bohai Sea region after landfall, Ma warned. The storm may also penetrate inland and establish a northward channel for moisture transport. Not only eastern China, but also central, northern and northeastern regions should closely monitor its potential impacts.
"Compared with the southern regions, northern China has less experience dealing with typhoon-related strong winds and heavy rainfall. Therefore, areas including Anhui, Henan, Shandong, North China and Northeast China should strengthen preparations," Ma added.
This summer, the abnormality of climate change has felt unusually close.
As the World Cup unfolds in full swing, another kind of heat has been gripping the European continent. A record-breaking heatwave in late June left behind not only scorching temperatures, but also wildfires, infrastructure disruptions and mounting public health concerns.
Reuters reported on July 7 that Europe may face "more deadly weeks" as another heatwave builds, with temperatures in Portugal and southern Spain expected to climb to 43 C in the coming days. WHO Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge held an emergency call with representatives from 41 countries, the European Commission and civil society groups to discuss lessons from the recent heatwave and preparations for the next one, according to the report.
At the other end of the Eurasian continent, China is also entering a summer of compound climate risks. In South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the remnants of Typhoon Maysak brought record-breaking rain and widespread flooding. Meanwhile, the Xinhua News Agency reported that Huanggang in Central China's Hubei Province was hit by a rare tornado on Monday evening, which caused 11 deaths.
China's overall July disaster risks remain complex. According to Xinhua, typhoons, rainstorms, floods, geological disasters, heatwaves and drought risks are expected to overlap this month.
From Europe's renewed heatwave warnings and wildfires to China's simultaneous high-temperature alerts, typhoon-triggered floods and rare tornadoes, extreme weather is increasingly arriving not as isolated incidents, but as overlapping tests of urban governance. Cutting carbon remains essential, but it is no longer enough. Cities also have to adapt - by forecasting earlier, giving more precise warnings, protecting vulnerable groups and preventing local hazards from cascading into wider disruptions.
From early warning to early action
Across China, AI forecasting, digital twin water management, urban lifeline monitoring and heat-health risk alerts are being used to identify risks earlier and turn weather warnings into concrete action.
AI weather forecasting offers one of the clearest examples of this shift. In late April, the China Meteorological Administration released its second demonstration plan for AI weather forecasting models, bringing AI models further into the country's operational forecasting system, the People's Daily reported.
The plan covers three key time scales: nowcasting within 0 to 3 hours, short- and medium-range forecasting within 0 to 15 days, and subseasonal prediction within 15 to 60 days, which focuses on bottlenecks such as the rapid formation and dissipation of convective storms, a long-standing challenge for forecasters because such systems can develop quickly and leave little time for emergency responses.
Yu Hui, director of the Shanghai Typhoon Institute of the China Meteorological Administration, was quoted by the Science and Technology Daily as saying that each improvement in forecasting can bring significant disaster-reduction benefits. Citing research assessments, Yu said that for landfalling typhoons, every one-kilometer reduction in track forecast error could reduce direct economic losses by nearly 100 million yuan ($14.7 million).
Douglas de Castro, a professor of international law at the School of Law, Lanzhou University, told the Global Times that China's development of early warning networks is notable because it goes beyond general meteorological alerts and moves toward more targeted risk management.
"Early warning systems are for dealing with immediate daily peak-hour exposure, while green urban planning addresses long-term structural vulnerabilities by tackling the core urban heat island effect," he said.
In flood control, digital twin water management is also turning predictions into rehearsals. The People's Daily reported that China has accelerated the building of a digital twin water conservancy system with "four pre-" functions - forecasting, early warnings, rehearsals and contingency planning - to improve water security management. The system uses digital mapping, data platforms, mathematical models and water conservancy data to simulate physical river basins, water networks and engineering projects.
Another layer of adaptation lies beneath city streets. Urban resilience is often discussed in abstract terms, but in practice it depends on whether gas pipelines, bridges, water supply, drainage, heating systems, tunnels and other "urban lifelines" can withstand extreme conditions.
Xinhua's Outlook Weekly reported that Hefei, capital of East China's Anhui Province, has built an urban lifeline monitoring system supported by about 85,000 front-end sensing devices, monitoring key infrastructure such as gas, bridges, water supply, drainage and heating around the clock. The system covers 7,316 kilometers of underground pipelines and 135 bridges, and processes more than 10 billion pieces of data every day, the Outlook Weekly reported.
For extreme heat, technology is also moving from simple temperature alerts toward health-based risk warnings.
The National Disease Control and Prevention Administration and the China Meteorological Administration established a meteorology-health cooperation mechanism in May 2025 to promote the joint release and linkage of health risk warnings for high temperatures, according to the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration.
Bao Cunkuan, a professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at Fudan University, told the Global Times that resilience should not be understood as one single measure, but as a systematic capacity that includes infrastructure, the economy, public services, government coordination, business participation and public mutual support.
He said that during extreme heat, shops, subway stations, sports venues and community spaces can all become part of a wider social response by providing cooling spaces and assistance to people. Turning adaptation into a governance system
According to the Blue Book on Climate Change in China 2026 released by the China Meteorological Administration on July 2, China is a sensitive area and significantly affected region of global climate change, with a warming rate higher than the global average over the same period.
From 1961 to 2025, China's annual average temperature rose by 0.31 C per decade, while extreme high-temperature events have increased markedly since the beginning of the 21st century and extreme heavy precipitation events have also shown an upward trend. The report also noted that China saw frequent and intense extreme weather and climate events in 2025, with its average temperature ranking among the two warmest years since 1901.
Beyond individual technologies, China's climate adaptation efforts are being organized through a broader policy framework that seeks to embed climate risk management into infrastructure, public health, urban planning and emergency response.
A key policy document is the National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy 2035, jointly released by multiple government departments in 2022. The strategy calls for strengthening climate change monitoring, early warning systems and risk management. It also calls for building climate-adaptive cities by improving urban climate risk prevention capacity.
De Castro said the document is an example of how climate resilience can be embedded across ministries and policy areas, rather than treated as a narrow environmental issue.
"China has also integrated environmental resilience into its broader socioeconomic development agenda through the concept of ecological civilization," De Castro said, adding that this allows adaptation-related measures to be scaled through public infrastructure, urban planning and industrial policy.
This framework is reflected not only in documents, but also in regular government-led operations before disasters occur.
As an early action ahead of the flood season, in mid-June, the world's largest clean energy corridor, anchored by the Three Gorges Project in Central China's Hubei Province, readied itself to play a key role in flood control along the Yangtze River's main body, after completing its annual pre-flood drawdown and freeing up about 35.8 billion cubic meters of flood-control storage, according to the China Three Gorges.
The preparations were completed after four major cascade reservoirs on the lower reaches of the Jinsha River - Wudongde, Baihetan, Xiluodu and Xiangjiaba - had all been lowered to their designated flood-control levels by 2 pm on June 17. The Three Gorges Reservoir had completed its own drawdown earlier.
Rejane Rocha, Brazil's executive secretary of the China-Brazil Center for Climate Change and Innovative Energy Technologies, told the Global Times that China's ability to "quickly turn plans into reality" stems from strategic planning, as well as policy and financial support that helps ensure implementation.
"China not only formulates plans but ensures their implementation through a combination of policy and financial backing. The government facilitates cooperation between enterprises and universities, enabling technology to be applied in real-world settings instead of remaining as academic theory that cannot be implemented," she said.
Facing challenges through cooperation
As climate risks become more complex, adaptation increasingly depends on data: the ability to observe the Earth, compare long-term changes, and turn scattered information into usable knowledge.
On July 3, Chinese scientists released the world's first stratigraphy AI large model, along with an intelligent global stratigraphic profile correlation system and other tools, CCTV reported. The release means that the Earth's 4.6-billion-year evolutionary history will have, for the first time, a globally shared database, providing scientific support for studies on the origin of life, resource distribution and climate evolution, according to the CCTV report.
Separately, in October 2025, the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals, or CBAS, released a report that used satellite remote sensing, ground sensor networks, social statistics and other Earth data to assess global sustainable development progress over the past decade, according to the center.
For developing countries, such tools can help fill practical capacity gaps. Guo Huadong, director-general of CBAS and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told the Global Times in a previous interview during a Beijing training workshop for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) that Big Earth Data can integrate satellite remote sensing, meteorological and ecological data to support timely monitoring of ecological environments and natural disasters.
Such support is especially important for SIDS, he said, as many island countries lack sufficient data, methods and trained personnel to respond to climate change and disaster risks.
In De Castro's view, China can play an important role in supporting climate adaptation across the Global South. He told the Global Times that as conventional climate finance commitments from developed economies face difficulties, China is in a position to share practical tools through South-South cooperation, including renewable energy technologies, resilient microgrids and AI-driven urban simulation tools for heat mapping.
A special exhibition titled “Justice Trial” opened on Wednesday at the Exhibition Hall of Evidence of Crimes Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army, in Harbin, capital of Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, to showcase historical facts related to trials of Japanese war criminals in China, the Global Times learned from the exhibition on Wednesday.
The exhibition, jointly hosted by the exhibition hall and the 9.18 Historical Museum in Shenyang, capital of Northeast China’s Liaoning Province, features photographs, items, as well as other archival materials. It documents the public trials and verdicts of 45 Japanese war criminals conducted by a special military tribunal of the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China.
In 1956, a special military tribunal of the Supreme People’s Court held public trials of 45 Japanese war criminals in Shenyang and Taiyuan in North China’s Shanxi Province. All the defendants pleaded guilty in court.
At the exhibition site, legal documents and historical archives, including indictments, verdicts, witness testimonies, and court trial records, are on display, systematically documenting the entire process from evidence investigation and courtroom trials to the reeducation of war criminals, China Central Televisin (CCTV) reported on Wednesday.
The exhibition constructs a comprehensive narrative system that spans the entire chain of crime evidence, rehabilitation, trials, and lasting peace. It presents the factual foundation of justice through extensive primary archives and witness testimonies.
A local resident in Harbin named Tian Shaodong said that through historical photographs, the exhibition truthfully showcases the heinous crimes committed by Japanese war criminals in China. “The visit allows each viewer to feel that the Chinese nation must become strong and continue to develop, and that history must be firmly remembered,” Tian told chinanews.com.cn.
The 110-ton-class liquid oxygen-kerosene engine Kinecore-2, developed by Chinese private aerospace company CAS Space, has successfully passed a long-duration qualification test, verifying its operational reliability as the main engine of the reusable Kinetica-2 Launcher, state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Tuesday.
Long-duration firing test involves running the engine far beyond mission flight time to assess the engine's durability under extreme operating conditions. In this test, the engine's operating duration was extended to 3.5 times the rocket's expected flight time, completing a total ignition test lasting 620 seconds, including a single continuous burn of 400 seconds, setting a new record for the engine's single-burn stable operating time, according to CCTV.
According to Ming Aizhen, a vice president of the power design department of CAS Space, this was an extreme-duration qualification test conducted under sustained high temperatures, high rotational speeds, high heat flux and continuous vibration - a significantly intensified evaluation of the engine's performance. The test demonstrates that the engine's overall performance is stable, fully covers all flight operating conditions, and provides a sufficient service-life margin.
This test comprehensively evaluated multiple key parameters of the engine as well as its reliability under continuous operation, laying a solid foundation for its engineering application and mass production. In the future, this engine will serve as the main propulsion system for the reusable rockets Kinetica-2 Launcher and Kinetica-2H Launcher, CCTV reported.
According to Ming, the Kinecore-2 engine has entered key reliability testing and will proceed along five main tracks including qualification test firing, three-engine clustered power system testing, on-rocket integration matching, mass production, and maiden launch. After final configuration, the engine will support the rockets' routine, high-frequency launches.
On Monday, China's reusable Zhuque-3 Y-2 rocket completed a static fire test at the Dongfeng commercial space innovation pilot zone in Northwest China, its developer, Chinese commercial aerospace company LandSpace, announced on Monday.
Zhuque-3 is a domestically developed, reusable launch vehicle powered by liquid oxygen-methane, according to Xinhua News Agency.
LandSpace said the test has verified that both the rocket systems and launch site systems were operating normally, adding that its test team would now proceed with launch preparations for the rocket's upcoming flight test missions, as scheduled, according to LandSpace.
At present, all key ground verification work for the pre-launch phase of the reusable Zhuque-3 Y-2 rocket has been fully completed. Next, the test team will carry out various launch preparation activities as planned to make full preparations for the upcoming flight test missions, LandSpace said.
Wang Yanan, editor-in-chief of Beijing-based Aerospace Knowledge magazine, told the Global Times on Tuesday that both state-owned and private firms in the China's commercial space sector have been advancing steadily to reduce launch costs and improve efficiency in rocket transportation and operations in recent years.
Low-cost and reusable rockets are being developed to support the rapid expansion of orbital infrastructure including low-Earth orbit satellite internet constellations, proposed space-based computing centers, and even envisioned space solar power systems, all of which required higher launch capacity, frequent missions, and controlled costs of rocket launches to enable a scalable space-based economy, Wang said.
China's private space firms have advanced engine reliability, thrust, and orbital launch capability, and are now focusing on the engineering and commercialization of reusable rocket technology, which is a necessary step toward scaling up China's orbital resource utilization capabilities, Wang said.
After a 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Gaoxian County in Yibin City, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, a Level-IV national emergency response for earthquake disaster relief has been activated and central authorities dispatched a working team to the affected area to guide response efforts, according to CCTV News.
As of press time, no deaths were reported, and 15 people suffered minor injuries, local authorities said on Monday, according to the Xinhua News Agency on Monday.
The Sichuan provincial earthquake relief headquarters also dispatched a working group to the affected area to oversee and guide rescue and emergency response efforts, CCTV News reported on Monday.
An initial assessment found that one person remains hospitalized with a fracture, while the others have been discharged and returned home. Authorities have evacuated and temporarily resettled 225 people. Local officials are now conducting a second round of inspections to further assess the damage and identify any additional impacts.
The earthquake occurred at 0:12 am Monday (Beijing Time). The epicenter was monitored at 28.50 degrees north latitude and 104.69 degrees east longitude, with a depth of 6 km, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
A student at Yibin University's campus in Cuiping district surnamed Xu told the Global Times on Monday that she had stayed up late finishing her homework and had gone to bed only minutes before the earthquake struck. When she first felt the dormitory shake, she assumed the movement came from her roommate on the opposite bunk. Another student in the room yelled "earthquake," prompting the two students to bolt outside immediately.
As a native of Sichuan who has lived through numerous earthquakes, Xu remained calm and was hesitating of going downstairs. But after seeing most of the students have evacuated and the dorm supervisor going door to door instructing everyone to leave, "I made my way to the playground, and stayed about half an hour before returning to the dorm room," Xu recounted.
Another student at another campus of Yibin University was on an upper floor when the earthquake struck. She told the Global Times on condition of anonymity that parts of the ceiling, tiles and the tube light all fell, while the intense shaking caused furniture to move. "I was overwhelmed and the only thought left was to escape," she said.
Following the earthquake, the Yibin earthquake relief headquarters activated a Level I-IV emergency response. Municipal departments, together with county- and district-level authorities, launched disaster assessment and relief operations, according to CCTV News.
Eight Chinese nationals have been confirmed dead in the earthquakes in Venezuela as of 5pm local time on Saturday, according to media reports citing the Chinese Embassy in Venezuela on Sunday. Meanwhile, the Federation of Chinese Associations in Venezuela and other Chinese community groups have been mobilized to donate disaster-relief materials to earthquake-damaged families.
The death toll from Venezuela's devastating twin earthquakes rose above 1,400 on Saturday as foreign rescue teams poured into the country and authorities pressed on with the search for survivors in the hardest-hit coastal areas, per Reuters.
The updated toll came as rescuers fanned out across La Guaira and parts of Caracas, where families and volunteers have spent days pulling survivors and bodies from the rubble.
Overseas Chinese in quake-hit Venezuela have donated about 500 tons of relief supplies, according to the Chinese Embassy in Venezuela, per Xinhua News Agency.
The supplies were donated by the Federation of Chinese Associations in Venezuela and other Chinese community groups as of 4 pm local time Saturday.
The supplies, including bottled water, biscuits, diapers, milk, rice, sugar, fish and meat, have helped nearly 10,000 families affected by the disaster.
Mo Shuhua, a Chinese national living in Valencia, the capital of Carabobo State, Venezuela, told the Global Times that as of Saturday local time, the Federation of Chinese Associations in Valencia had received $100,000 in donations, as well as dozens of tons of relief supplies, including clothing and food.
Mo himself was engaged in the local daily necessities supply business, and has donated a large amount of toiletries and bath towels. "Those who can contribute money donate money, those who can contribute effort offer their labor, and those who can provide supplies contribute materials. We are doing our most to support the disaster relief efforts in Caracas," Mo said.
Two consecutive quakes, measuring magnitude 7.2 and 7.5, hit Venezuela on Wednesday.
The Chinese government and the Red Cross Society of China will provide emergency humanitarian aid to Venezuela for quake relief respectively. We stand ready to offer more support as the disaster response progresses, Guo Jiakun, spokesperson from China's Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
The Chinese embassy in Venezuela is doing all it can to verify the safety of Chinese nationals in the quake zone and will actively provide necessary assistance. We advise Chinese nationals in Venezuela to exercise caution against possible secondary quake hazards, said Guo.
Premier of the State Council Li Qiang will attend the 17th Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC) in Dalian from June 23 to 24. Premier Li Qiang will attend the Opening Plenary and deliver a special address, meet with foreign dignitaries, and have a conversation with representatives of the business community.
Prime Minister of Bangladesh Tarique Rahman, Prime Minister of Guinea Amadou Oury Bah, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Olzhas Bektenov, Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea Kim Minseok, Prime Minister of Mongolia Uchral Nyam-Osor, and Prime Minister of Montenegro Milojko Spajić will attend the AMNC. Over 1,700 representatives from the political, business, academic and media communities from over 90 countries and regions will take part in the AMNC.
This is an internal matter for the UK and China does not comment on it, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Tuesday when asked about British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's announcement that he had resigned the previous day, and whether his resignation would have any impact on China-UK relations. Guo added that China and the UK are both permanent members of the UN Security Council and major world economies. Developing a long-term, stable comprehensive strategic partnership serves the fundamental interests of both countries and their peoples, and is also conducive to world peace, stability, and prosperity.
Both sides should move toward each other, deepen bilateral cooperation and multilateral coordination, and work together to maintain and improve the momentum of bilateral relations, the spokesperson said.
Inga Ruginienė has resigned as Lithuania's prime minister on Tuesday. Prior to her resignation, negotiations between Lithuania and Taiwan regional authorities on an economic cooperation action plan had been put on hold "by mutual agreement," Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT) reported.
According to LRT, the pause was prompted by "changes in the domestic political environment," referring to the formation of a new coalition government in Vilnius.
The policy adjustment comes amid broader political changes in Lithuania. According to Euronews, political parties in Lithuania signed a coalition agreement on Thursday, with the Social Democrats, the Democrats "For Lithuania" and the Farmers and Greens Union, along with partners, the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania - Christian Families Alliance, striking a new deal.
The agreement includes an aim to "normalize diplomatic relations with China" to the level maintained by other European Union countries, Euronews reported.
The latest development has also been acknowledged by authorities on the island of Taiwan. According to the island's media outlet CNA, authorities on the island has confirmed that the island and Vilnius had "agreed to suspend talks on a new economic cooperation project proposed by Lithuania, due to the ongoing formation of a new coalition government.
Taiwan regional authorities claimed Tuesday that their "friendly cooperation" with Lithuania would not be affected by any third party and that they would continue close coordination on the economic cooperation action plan. They also claimed the suspension was likely due to the formation of Lithuania's new government, while both sides remained committed to expanding economic and trade ties, Chinatimes.com reported.
Speaking on Sunday, Kuomintang politician Yeh Yuan-chih questioned the DPP authorities' long-standing portrayal of ties with Lithuania as a diplomatic breakthrough, according to Chinatimes.com.
Yeh said that both the DPP authorities and former regional leader Tsai Ing-wen had repeatedly described Taiwan island's relations with Lithuania as "encouraging" and promoted concepts such as "like-minded countries" and "democratic partners" to downplay the reality that only a small number of countries maintain formal diplomatic relations with the island.
He also questioned a cooperation package reportedly involving around $1.2 billion and plans related to semiconductor development in Lithuania, calling on the DPP authorities to explain the project's status and why Lithuania's position appeared to have shifted after the island has invested significant resources.
"Over the years, the DPP authorities have attempted to secure so-called international support by providing investment, aid and other benefits to certain foreign politicians, while portraying such support as recognition of Taiwan island's authorities and evidence of its growing international standing," Zheng Jian, a professor at the Graduate Institute for Taiwan Studies of Xiamen University, told the Global Times on Tuesday.
The DPP authorities have long portrayed support from certain politicians as representing broader backing from democratic countries. "But this approach is becoming increasingly ineffective," Zheng said.
On Monday, responding to media questions regarding reports that Lithuania had agreed to allow China to open a chargé d'affaires office and whether China would reopen its embassy in Vilnius and restore bilateral relations, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun reiterated China's position.
"The crux of the current difficulties is that the Lithuanian side violated the one-China principle and went back on its political commitment made in the joint communiqué on the establishment of diplomatic relations," Guo said.
"China remains open as always to communication. It is hoped that the Lithuanian side will act promptly and decisively to correct past mistakes and return to the right track of adhering to the one-China principle so as to create conditions for the normalization of relations with China," he added.
