The Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) is a subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament. It is responsible for issues of human rights and democracy,including ensuring their implementation in European Union policy,encouraging dialogue with international agencies and civil society,and providing a platform for reports on and analysis of human rights both within and outside the EU.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China is the first-ranked executive department of the State Council of the People's Republic of China,responsible for the country's foreign relations. It is led by the minister of foreign affairs,currently Wang Yi,who serves as the nation's principal representative abroad. The ministry is headquartered in Chaoyang District,Beijing,the country's primary diplomatic quarter.
Jiang Yu is a Chinese diplomat who serves as the special representative for cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European countries within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China. She previously served as the spokesperson within the ministry,and as Chinese ambassador to Albania (2015-2018) and Romania (2019-2012).
Liu Jianchao is a Chinese diplomat and politician who is the current head of the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party,in office since June 2022.
Ma Zhaoxu is a Chinese diplomat who is currently the Executive Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Hua Chunying is a Chinese diplomat who has been serving as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of China since 2024. She most notably served as spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Hong Lei is a Chinese diplomat and politician,serving as Director-General of the Department of Protocol,Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was Chinese Consul General in Chicago from 2016 to 2018 and served as spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2010 to 2016. Hong was the 25th spokesperson since the spokesperson system was established in the ministry in 1983.
Qin Gang is a Chinese former diplomat and politician who served as the 12th Minister of Foreign Affairs from December 2022 to July 2023 and as State Councillor from March to October 2023.
Wu Chih-chung is a Taiwanese diplomat and politician who has been the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs since August 2024 and previously from May 2016 to July 2018,and has later become the Ambassador of Taiwan in France from July 2018 to August 2024.
Geng Shuang is a Chinese politician serving as China's Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations. He formerly served as the deputy director of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Lu Kang is a Chinese diplomat currently serving as deputy minister of the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party since May 2024. He previously served as the Director of the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China. His most recent diplomatic post was as the Chinese Ambassador to Indonesia where he served from 2022 to 2024.
Zhou Jian is a Chinese diplomat currently serving as ambassador of China to Qatar.
Zhao Lijian is a Chinese civil servant who has been serving as deputy director of the Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China since January 2023.
Wang Wenbin is a Chinese politician and diplomat who currently serves as the Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia. He was formerly a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,deputy director of the Foreign Ministry Information Department,and currently a member of the Chinese Communist Party. He is the 32nd spokesperson since the position was established in the ministry back in 1983. He served as the Chinese Ambassador to Tunisia from 2018 to 2020,and has worked in Chinese embassies in Mauritius and Senegal.
Qi Huaiyuan was a Chinese diplomat and politician who served as director of Office of Foreign Affairs under the State Council from 1991 to 1994. Prior to that,he was assistant foreign minister in 1984 and vice foreign minister in 1986 and before that,a spokesperson of Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 1983 and 1984.
Mao Ning is a Chinese diplomat. As a member of the Communist Party of China (CPC),she has been serving as the 33rd spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China since September 2022 and as the director-general of the Department of Press,Communication,and Public Diplomacy of the ministry since January 2025.
Li Kexin,is a diplomat of the People's Republic of China who held the position of deputy director of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission.
Chinese sanctions are financial and trade restrictions imposed against individuals,entities,and jurisdictions whose actions have been determined by the government of the People's Republic of China to be contrary to certain Chinese national interests. China maintains three unilateral sanctions programs in addition to implementing the multilateral sanction decisions adopted by the United Nations Security Council.
Guo Jiakun is a Chinese diplomat,currently serving as the 35th spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China since 6 January 2025.
