10.7910/DVN/BAKGETMochtak, MichalMichalMochtak0000-0001-5598-5642Radboud UniversityTurcsanyi, Richard Q.Richard Q.Turcsanyi0000-0003-2036-6029Palacky University OlomoucHarvard Dataverse2026Computer and Information ScienceSocial SciencescorpusChinaforeign affairstext as datadiscourseinternational relationspolitical sciencenatural language processingquantitative text analysisMochtak, MichalMichalMochtakRadboud University2026-01-102026-01-102026-01-102026-01-1010.1007/s11366-021-09762-3496222842450148409784text/plainapplication/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheetapplication/pdftext/plain6.0The 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.Unfortunately, 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.