Question about punctuation 2
Madagascar will resolutely continue pursuing the one-China policy, and maintain mutual support with China on issues concerning each other's core interests, the president noted, saying China is a most reliable cooperation partner to Madagascar and that Madagascar is fully confident in the prospects of bilateral relations,said the president.

Here above is the sentence drew from a Chinese News website.
1.I wanna ask this sort of the long sentence is common for news release in medias of native English?
2.Can 2nd comma be obmitted? What is the meaning will be without the comma?

Thank you!

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Question about punctuation 2
Madagascar will resolutely continue pursuing the one-China policy, and maintain mutual support with China on issues concerning each other's core interests, the president noted, saying China is a most reliable cooperation partner to Madagascar and that Madagascar is fully confident in the prospects of bilateral relations,said the president.

Here above is the sentence drew from a Chinese News website.
1.I wanna ask this sort of the long sentence is common for news release in medias of native English?
2.Can 2nd comma be obmitted? What is the meaning will be without the comma?

Thank you!

Answer

It is not exactly the most natural sentence, I can tell that it was written by a non-English speaker. This is mostly considering the fact that it says "the president noted, saying" and then at the end it says "said the president".
This is very unnatural, to say "say" twice.
No English speaker would say, "The president said he is confident, said the president."
You should only say "said" once. 
As far as the length...yes, it is overly long.

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In my opinion, the first comma is not necessary.

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a sentence drawn from ...
1. Yes.
2. Yes, but better with it as the "the president noted" is somewhat of a tangential message. There is not difference in meaning, just makes the direction change less obvious to the reader, without it.
In general, English writers often include more commas than necessary. It sometimes aids readability, given that we are now used to having many commas, at any join.
In British English, the first comma would not be there. It appears to be an American thing to include commas before "and": totally foreign to me.

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