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Committee of Foreign Affairs

Special Committee of the CPPCC National Committee

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ22100789 ↗
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The Committee of Foreign Affairs is one of ten special committees of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, China's top political advisory body and a central part of the Chinese Communist Party's united front system.

History

The Foreign Affairs Committee was created in June 1988 during the 7th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

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“Committee of Foreign Affairs” enters the record as special Committee of the CPPCC National Committee. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Committee, Foreign and Affairs can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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