Welcome to another episode of the GT Podcast with Mulan - a one-stop shop for the Global Times' take on top China and global news.

In today's podcast:

China's top legislature voted to appoint Wang Yi as foreign minister, and Qin Gang was removed from the post.

A top CPC leadership meeting on the economic situation in the second half of 2023 has spurred confidence in the Chinese economy despite new challenges. 

In an exclusive interview with Global Times, Kishore Mahbubani, a former Singaporean diplomat, talks about the arrival of the Asian Century and the end of the American Century.

In our "Witness to history" series, chronicler of a century-old friendship talks about unchanging friendship between people of China and US.

A tomb stone in the suburbs of Beijing is a witness to the 500-year-old friendship and exchanges between Chinese and the Ryukyuan people.