Inspired by China's ambition of developing into a global sporting power, Olympic champion skier Xu Mengtao has vowed to start over again and round off her career with a record fifth Games appearance.
The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics impressed the world not only through the thrilling sporting action and the host's fantastic organizational work, but also thanks to the charm of Chinese culture which was showcased via a variety of art exhibitions and activities.
A slew of statements and documents put forward by Japan recently have brought the country's hypocritical policy on nuclear weapons into sharp focus. And given Japan's efforts to downplay its militarist past and instead highlight the fact that it is the only victim of a nuclear attack－Hiroshima on Aug 6 and in Nagasaki on Aug 9 in 1945－the international community should more closely scrutinize its nuclear program.
On the 77th anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender at the end of World War II, over 100 Japanese people assembled in Tokyo on Monday to protest against moves to amend its pacifist Constitution and to call for removing the Yasukuni Shrine.