Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Conferences Corpus (CMFA PressCon)doi:10.7910/DVN/BAKGETHarvard Dataverse2021-09-016Mochtak, Michal; Turcsanyi, Richard Q., 2021, "Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Conferences Corpus (CMFA PressCon)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BAKGET, Harvard Dataverse, V6, UNF:6:5aIjqRFvBBIPqxGQtNC/aA== [fileUNF]Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Conferences Corpus (CMFA PressCon)doi:10.7910/DVN/BAKGETMochtak, MichalTurcsanyi, Richard Q.2026-01-10Harvard DataverseMochtak, MichalMochtak, Michal2026-01-102026-01-10Computer and Information ScienceSocial SciencescorpusChinaforeign affairstext as datadiscourseinternational relationspolitical sciencenatural language processingquantitative text analysisThe 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.2002-10-152025-12-31Unfortunately, we were not able to check all 35 346 question/answers dyads manually, so there is no guarantee that the dataset is without any errors. As we plan to maintain/update the dataset further, feel free to contact us if you spot anything problematic or something that needs to be fixed systematically. We will include the changes in the next release. <br><br> Important: From version 6 of the dataset onward, we no longer publish linguistic annotations. There is not enough interest in them to justify the additional effort required to create and maintain the extra data.Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/) Wayback Machine (http://web.archive.org/)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-SA 4.0)When 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): 743-761.10.1007/s11366-021-09762-3When 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.changelog.txttext/plainCMFA_PressCon_v6.xlsxFull dataset; v6application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheetCODEBOOK_CMFA_PressCon_v6.pdfapplication/pdfreadme.txttext/plain