China and Vietnam opened two temporary corridors crossing the border on Sunday to facilitate travel, trade and people-to-people exchanges.
The two corridors connect Babu Township and Yangwan Township in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of southwest China's Yunnan Province respectively with two locations in Vietnam's An Minh and Quan Ba counties.
"It's quite convenient and fast. Once we obtain our border resident certificates, we can just cross the border with them, and the customs clearance takes just a few minutes," said Zhou Jinchang, a villager in Yangwan Township.
"In terms of trade, it will bring income to businesses. For example, daily necessities, agricultural tools are all allowed to trade," said Xiang Minghe, another Yangwan resident.
In the first half of the year, Wenshan registered 386,000 entry and exit trips, up 385.4 percent year on year.
This growth is driven by surging trips of not only Chinese and Vietnamese residents and tourists, but also travelers from other countries, owing to China's expanding visa-free policies and thriving economic activities in the border areas.
China, Vietnam open two temporary cross-border corridors to facilitate trips, trade
Nicaragua's co-foreign minister Valdrack Jaentschke has warned that militarism must never be allowed to rise again, as Japan's recent moves to lift its arms export ban and revise the pacifist Constitution continue to draw international concern.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Tokyo Trials, where Japan's Class-A war criminals from World War II were brought to justice.
In an interview with China Global Television Network (CGTN), Valdrack Jaentschke voiced his concern that today's world order is being undermined by interventionism and other challenges.
"It is necessary for us to remember that after the end of World War II, countries worked hard to build a new international order based on international law. However, regrettably, more than 80 years later, we are seeing that this once explored and attempted order is being challenged by interventionism, a confrontational mindset, and tendencies like 'might makes right.' These are precisely the conditions that gave rise to fascism and militarism in the past, which ultimately led to the tragedy of World War II," he said.
He said the international community has a responsibility to pursue a new international order -- one fundamentally grounded in peace.
"Looking back at the history more than eight decades ago and comparing it with today's reality, it is our responsibility to recognize that the world should, and must, build a new international order that is more just, fairer, rooted in international law, based on a logic of mutual benefit and shared success, and fundamentally grounded in peace," said the minister.
"Today, as we revisit the Tokyo Trials, it is meant to remind the world that such a tragedy must never be repeated -- and that we must do everything in our power to prevent it from happening again. We must stop that dark world -- born from militarism, interventionism, and fascism -- from ever returning," he said.
Nicaraguan FM warns of militarism revival
