2025-12-01
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This is the Beijing Hour.
Examining the events that impact and shake China and the rest of the world.
This is the Beijing Hour.
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Now here's your host, Shane Begum with you on this Monday, December the 1st, 2025.
You're listening to the Beijing Hour coming to you live from the Chinese capital.
On today's program, China's raising concerns over Japan's increased military spending amid the tensions over Taiwan.
American and Ukrainian officials say their talks on a Russia-Ukraine peace deal have been productive, and China's Hainan Province is preparing for a surge in tourism, but the island's special customs operations soon taking effect.
In business, China sets a new record for express deliveries.
In sports, World Athletics has announced its athletes of the year.
In culture and entertainment, with a month ago, China China's box office for the year approaches 50 billion yuan.
Now checking the day's top stories.
China's voice concern over Japan's increased military spending, warning against a resurgence of militarism.
This comes amid ongoing tensions, following Prime Minister Senai Takei's remarks on Taiwan.
Soon Tianyuan has details.
China's foreign ministry says Japan continues to dodge and blur its position on Taiwan.
The ministry says Tokyo avoids referencing the Cairo Declaration, the Postman Proclamation, and its own instrument of surrender, all documents that confirm Taiwan's return to China.
The ministry added that Tokyo also stays a silence on the four political documents that underpin China-Japan relations and on its own one China pledge.
only that its position hasn't changed.