Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Conferences Corpus (CMFA PressCon)https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BAKGETMochtak, MichalTurcsanyi, Richard Q.Harvard Dataverse2021-09-012026-01-10T19:37:35ZThe repository contains an original corpus of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Conferences (CMFA PresCon) mapping two decades of Chinese diplomatic discourse and priorities in China’s foreign policy. The dataset is organized around a question/response structure extracted from the official transcripts of press conferences held between 15 October 2002 and 31 December 2025 and in its current version (v6) counts 35 346 data points.Computer and Information ScienceSocial SciencescorpusChinaforeign affairstext as datadiscourseEnglishWhen using the CMFA PressCon data, please cite: Mochtak, Michal and Richard Q. Turcsanyi (2021): "Studying Chinese Foreign Policy Narratives: Introducing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Conferences Corpus". <i>Journal of Chinese Political Science</i>, 26 (4): 743-761., doi, 10.1007/s11366-021-09762-3, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11366-021-09762-32026-01-10Mochtak, Michal2026-01-102002-10-152025-12-31Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/) Wayback Machine (http://web.archive.org/)Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-SA 4.0)