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Taiwan: Multiple Dead After M7.4 Earthquake Strikes Off Hualien City 9

As of writing, at least 7 people died and dozens were injured after a strong earthquake struck off the coast of Taiwan, 18km south-southeast of Hualien City, on Wednesday morning, April 3. According to USGS, it was a magnitude 7.4 earthquake. This video taken at Taipei Songshan Airport shows the moment when the quake hit.

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Tokyo-Beijing Forum

Former Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua speaks during the Tokyo-Beijing Forum in Beijing on Oct. 19, 2023.

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Tokyo-Beijing Forum

Former Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua (C) speaks during a plenary session of the Tokyo-Beijing Forum in Beijing on Oct. 19, 2023.

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China's ambassador hints at Sino-Japanese summit talks

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua says in a speech in Tokyo on Oct. 15, 2014, that Beijing and Tokyo are arranging through diplomatic channels to realize the first formal talks between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during November's APEC forum meeting in the Chinese capital.

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China envoy in Japan hosts national foundation party

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua toasts at a reception in Tokyo on Sept. 25, 2014, celebrating China's 65th anniversary of its foundation.

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China's ambassador urges Japan efforts to mend ties

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua says at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 27, 2014, that Japan must make more efforts to mend frayed ties with his country and realize bilateral summit talks.

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Japan summons China envoy to protest over plane encounter

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua responds to questions from reporters at Japan's Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on June 12, 2014, after meeting with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki. Saiki lodged a protest over the second near-miss incident involving their military planes in less than three weeks and urged China to prevent a recurrence.

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Japan summons China envoy to protest over plane encounter

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki responds to questions from reporters at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on June 12, 2014, after meeting with Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua. Saiki lodged a protest over the second near-miss incident involving their military planes in less than three weeks and urged China to prevent a recurrence.

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Chinese envoy visits Tokyo governor

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua (L) shakes hands with Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe as the ambassador made a courtesy call on the governor at the metropolitan government offices on March 28, 2014.

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China slams Abe's shrine visit

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua speaks with reporters at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2013, after lodging a protest with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki over Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo earlier in the day.

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China slams Abe's shrine visit

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua speaks with reporters at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2013, after lodging a protest with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki over Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo earlier in the day.

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Chinese envoy in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua arrives at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo for talks with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida on Dec. 20, 2013.

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China envoy in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua (C) visits Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Nov. 26, 2013.

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Chinese envoy Cheng

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua speaks with reporters at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2013, after being summoned there by Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki. Saiki lodged a protest over Beijing's establishment of an air defense zone covering the Senkaku Islands in an attempt to stake its claim over the Japanese-administered islets in the East China Sea.

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China vessels in Japan waters

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua leaves Japan's Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2013, after Japan's Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki conveyed to Cheng Japan's protest over the entry of Chinese vessels into Japanese territorial waters near the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.

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Chinese envoy

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua leaves Japan's Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2013. Cheng held talks with Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki ahead of the anniversary on Aug. 15 of Japan's surrender in World War II, senior Foreign Ministry officials said.

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Chinese envoy

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua leaves Japan's Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2013. Cheng held talks with Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki ahead of the anniversary on Aug. 15 of Japan's surrender in World War II, senior Foreign Ministry officials said.

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Chinese ships converge near Senkakus

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua arrives at the Japanese Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on April 23, 2013. The ministry summoned him and lodged a protest after Chinese maritime surveillance vessels entered Japanese territorial waters the same day around the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, claimed by China.

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China envoy

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua talks in Tokyo to Kyodo News and its member news organizations on Nov. 30, 2012.

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China envoy in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua speaks during a reception at a Tokyo hotel on Sept. 25, 2012, to mark the 40th anniversary of normalization of Japan-China relations.

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Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua leaves the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 15, 2012, after meeting with Vice Foreign Minister Kenichiro Sasae. Japanese police arrested the same day activists from a Hong Kong-based group seeking to assert China's claim to the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea after they landed on one of the isles, Uotsuri Island.

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Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua delivers a speech in Tokyo on June 21, 2012. Cheng criticized Japan for allowing a general assembly of the World Uyghur Congress to be held in Tokyo in May.

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Japan quake-hit city desires pandas to be leased

SENDAI, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua (L) and Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama shake hands at the Sendai city offices in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 18, 2011. The mayor of the city, which was hit hard by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, reiterated in a meeting with the ambassador the city's request for China to lease giant pandas to the city-run Yagiyama Zoological Park to cheer up local children affected by the disaster. The city made the request to the Chinese government earlier.

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Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua delivers a speech in Tokyo on Sept. 22, 2011. Cheng said the Chinese military is not strong enough yet, disputing the view that China poses a threat to Japan and other countries.

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New shipping route over Sea of Japan

SEIRO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua (2nd from R) attends a tape-cutting ceremony in Seiro, Niigata Prefecture, on Aug. 18, 2011, on the inauguration of a new shipping and trucking route linking Japan's Niigata Prefecture and Huichuan in China's Jilin Province via Russia's Zarubino, all on the Sea of Japan coast.

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Chinese students send condolence gifts to quake-hit Japanese school

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese elementary school students (left side) from Chiba Prefecture, affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, receive condolence gifts on July 15, 2011 at the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo, from Chinese students living in Sichuan, devastated by an earthquake in May 2008. Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua stands on the right front.

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China ambassador thanks Sendai for supporting Chinese

SENDAI, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua (L) hands Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama a certificate of appreciation at the city office on April 15, 2011. Cheng thanked the city for helping Chinese survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami who were in the northeastern Japan city at the time, and handed over money donated by Chinese companies.

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Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua speaks during a press conference at the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo on March 29, 2011. A Chinese tanker carrying 10,000 tons of gasoline and 10,000 tons of heavy oil China donated to Japan as disaster relief headed to Japan the same day. But the ambassador said it took more than 10 days to make arrangements with Japanese authorities on where and how to deliver the fuel supplies.

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China ambassador visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua (C) holding a wreath heads for the Hypocenter Cenotaph in Nagasaki on Dec. 18, 2010. Cheng said he will tell future generations of the importance of peace.

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China envoy displeased with monitoring of Chinese navy

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua gives a speech at a meeting sponsored by K.K. Kyodo News in Tokyo on May 11, 2010. Cheng expressed strong displeasure with the monitoring of a Chinese navy fleet by Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force in waters off Japan.

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Chinese envoy criticizes Japan for 'following' navy vessels

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua speaks at the Japan Press Club in Tokyo on April 27, 2010. Cheng criticized Japan for ''following'' Chinese navy vessels engaged in military exercises on the high seas after Chinese vessel-borne helicopters approached Japanese destroyers.

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New Chinese Ambassador Cheng arrives in Tokyo

NARITA, Japan - China's new ambassador to Japan, Cheng Yonghua, speaks to reporters upon arrival at Narita International Airport, east of Tokyo, on Feb. 28, 2010.

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Japan protests to China over submarine intrusion, demands apology

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura (L) meets with Chinese Minister Cheng Yonghua at the Foreign Ministry on Nov. 12 to lodge a strong protest over a suspected nuclear submarine that intruded into Japanese waters which Tokyo determined belongs to the Chinese Navy.

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Japan, China confirm notification scheme in maritime dispute

BEIJING, China - Japan and China hold working-level talks in Beijing on Sept. 15 to confirm the creation of a mutual notification mechanism in a bid to resolve disputes over Chinese research activities in Japan's exclusive economic waters. Shigekazu Sato, deputy director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Bureau, and his Chinese counterpart Cheng Yonghua attended the talks.

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Event marking Japan-China 50th diplomatic anniv.

Former Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua (2nd from R) looks at an electric scooter on Sept. 24, 2022, during an event marking the 50th anniversary on Sept. 29 of the normalization of Japan-China diplomatic relations in Beijing.

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Tokyo-Beijing Forum

Former Chinese Ambassador to Japan, Cheng Yonghua, speaks in Beijing on Oct. 25, 2021, during the Tokyo-Beijing Forum held virtually amid COVID-19 worries.

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Tokyo-Beijing Forum

Former Chinese Ambassador to Japan, Cheng Yonghua (L), speaks in Beijing on Oct. 25, 2021, during the Tokyo-Beijing Forum held virtually amid COVID-19 worries.

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Chinese envoy donates to Kumamoto's quake relief

Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua (L) gives Kumamoto Gov. Ikuo Kabashima a list of donations totaling about 52 million yen in Kumamoto on April 23, 2016, as aid to the southwestern Japan prefecture hit by powerful earthquakes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo hosts event to introduce Chinese culture

Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua (R) speaks in Tokyo on Jan. 29, 2016, at the opening ceremony of an event to introduce Chinese culture, with former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda looking on. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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China's ambassador shows concerns over Japan's security bills

China's ambassador to Japan, Cheng Yonghua, attends a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on July 23, 2015. Cheng said Chinese people are concerned that legislation in Japan aimed at expanding the overseas role of the Self-Defense Forces may change Japan's exclusively defense-oriented posture and its path of peaceful development. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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78th anniv. of Lugou Bridge incident marked at Chinese Embassy

Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua addresses a ceremony at the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo on July 7, 2015, marking the 78th anniversary of the Lugou Bridge incident, which is regarded as having triggered the war between Japan and China. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1971 "pingpong diplomacy" monument unveiled at Aichi gymnasium

Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua, Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura, and Stephen Kovacsics, principal officer at the U.S. Consulate in Nagoya, (from L) join hands on May 19, 2015, in front of a monument founded at the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium to pass on the knowledge of the 1971 table tennis matches, known as "pingpong diplomacy" that set the stage for the eventual normalization of diplomatic relations between the United States and China, to multiple generations. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chinese ambassador to Japan at press conference in Tokyo

Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua speaks in a press conference at the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo on March 27, 2015, calling on Japan to join the China-proposed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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China embassy begins probe on Japan's wartime forced labor

Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua speaks at a meeting organized by the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo on Sept. 18, 2015, to discuss the issue of Chinese nationals forced by Japan to work at mines and construction sites during World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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China embassy begins probe on Japan's wartime forced labor

Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua speaks at a meeting organized by the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo on Sept. 18, 2015, to discuss the issue of Chinese nationals forced by Japan to work at mines and construction sites during World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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China envoy concerned over Japan's security bills

Photo shows Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua. He expressed his concerns over Japan's security bills that passed the lower house at a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on July 23, 2015, saying there is worry in China that Japan may alter its path of peaceful development. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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China envoy displeased with monitoring of Chinese navy

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua gives a speech at a meeting sponsored by K.K. Kyodo News in Tokyo on May 11, 2010. Cheng expressed strong displeasure with the monitoring of a Chinese navy fleet by Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force in waters off Japan. (Kyodo)

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Chinese envoy criticizes Japan for 'following' navy vessels

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua speaks at the Japan Press Club in Tokyo on April 27, 2010. Cheng criticized Japan for ''following'' Chinese navy vessels engaged in military exercises on the high seas after Chinese vessel-borne helicopters approached Japanese destroyers. (Kyodo)

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Japan protests to China over submarine intrusion, demands apolog

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura (L) meets with Chinese Minister Cheng Yonghua at the Foreign Ministry on Nov. 12 to lodge a strong protest over a suspected nuclear submarine that intruded into Japanese waters which Tokyo determined belongs to the Chinese Navy. (Kyodo)

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Japan quake-hit city desires pandas to be leased

SENDAI, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua (L) and Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama shake hands at the Sendai city offices in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 18, 2011. The mayor of the city, which was hit hard by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, reiterated in a meeting with the ambassador the city's request for China to lease giant pandas to the city-run Yagiyama Zoological Park to cheer up local children affected by the disaster. The city made the request to the Chinese government earlier. (Kyodo)