CHINA BROUGHT A GIFT to the United Nations’ 80th General Assembly session yesterday: soil and rocks from "the dark side of the moon”.
It was powerfully symbolic.
The country was as poor as the least developed African nations in the 1960s, when the super-rich US was making its pioneering voyages to the moon—but China has…
CHINESE JUDGES HAVE been appointed to top United Nations tribunals for the first time.
Gao Xiaoli (高曉力) was elected to serve in the UN Appeals Tribunal and Sun Xiangzhuang (孫祥壯) in the Dispute Tribunal.
The moves show China’s willingness to serve in important United Nations roles. Over the past 30 years, China has sent more than…
