The ongoing Spring Festival holiday is unfolding across China as a rich tapestry of cultural heritage and festive joy.
Cites and towns nationwide are hosting colorful festivities with traditional culture taking center stage.
In Beijing, the historic Wanping Town turns into an open-air theater, with Peking opera and interactive folk activities entertaining holiday visitors.
Elsewhere, from the inland province of Qinghai to the coastal province of Guangdong, dance parades and folk art showcases featuring distinctive regional traditions are being held to celebrate the Chinese New Year.
This year's Spring Festival has also seen spectacular nighttime events being held from north to south, with people from different regions enjoying a rich variety of activities such as fireworks, lantern displays, evening fairs and dragon lantern parades.
Vibrant cultural activities held across China to celebrate Spring Festival
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
