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Experts stress need to repair China-US ties

Published:December 28,2022 By ZHAO HUANXIN in Washington  2022 saw further deterioration, but also sign of hope with presidential summit The year 2022 turned out to be more eventful than ever for China-US relations, which experts believe are in a “dangerous downward spiral”, with trust dipping still lower, making it imperative for …

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Chinese-aided Africa CDC headquarters project approaches completion

Published: December 28,2022 Construction site for the new headquarters of the Africa Center for Disease Control in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Image via Xinhua. In the southern suburb of Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, the mid-December scorching sun did not affect the highly driven Chinese and African engineers who were battling against …

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Xi’s trips across country focus on harvest, food security amid global crisis

By Wang Cong and Yin Yeping A farmer loads a truck with harvested rice in Dongguan, South China’s Guangdong Province, on November 20, 2022. Photo: VCG Xi’s journeys secure nation’s rice bowl In a major speech at the central rural work conference from Friday to Saturday, where top officials mapped out policy priorities …

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Chinese firm to build electrical substation in Sudan’s state

Published: December 27,2022 China XD Group signed on Sunday a contract with the Sudanese government to build an electrical substation in Al-Fula, the capital of Sudan’s West Kordofan State, to connect cities in the state with the national power grid. Sudanese Finance Minister Jibril Ibrahim, representatives of the Chinese Embassy in Sudan and officials …

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Wang Yi hails China’s diplomatic work in 2022, vows to write new chapter 

Published : December 26, 2022 Over the past year, China has met challenges head-on and advanced its diplomatic agenda with greater resolve, said Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in review and preview of the international situation and China’s foreign relations. Wang made the remarks in a speech …

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Belt, Road Initiative high on diplomatic agenda next year

Published: December 26,2022 By ZHANG YUNBI  Aerial photo taken on May 26, 2021 shows the Yangpuinternational container port at Yangpu economic development zone in South China’s Hainan province. [Photo/Xinhua] China-led visions, including the Belt and Road Initiative, will be a major highlight of Beijing’s diplomatic agenda next year to ensure they better serve …

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Zimbabwe, China renew extradition treaty

Published: December 26,2022 Zimbabwe and China have renewed their extradition treaty with effect from Dec. 23, 2022, Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe has said. The two countries first signed the treaty in 2018. Under the treaty, each country undertakes to extradite to the other those found in its territory and …

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Will Americans imitate China’s approach to Africa?

Published: December 25,2022 By Ivor Ichikowitz Attendees of the US-Africa Leaders’ Summit walk through the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., December 13, 2022. [Photo/VCG] African nations today seek a very different kind of engagement with the West from what they have known, and the United States is seemingly “all in” …

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Chinese company completes first phase of light rail project in SW Nigeria

Published: December 25,2022 Nigeria’s southwestern state of Lagos on Wednesday marked the completion of the first phase of a 27-km electric-powered light rail project. Undertaken by China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) since 2010, the completed tracks of the Lagos Rail Mass Transit (LRMT) Blue Line project span 13 km …

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