January  6, 2026

Over the past year, China directed much of its diplomatic efforts to championing the postwar international order as it celebrated the 80th anniversaries of the victory in World War II, the founding of the United Nations and Taiwan's restoration to China.

These efforts were "highly necessary and timely", and much more than just simple ticks on the 2025 diplomatic calendar in a volatile world, leading scholars and observers told China Daily.

Such diplomatic efforts proved to be timely reminders of the imminent challenges posed by right-wing impulses, unilateralism and hegemony to countries across the globe, the international system and China's core interests, they said.

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