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Published: February 1,2022 By Rao Hongwe The Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) received a variety of personal protective equipment from China for fighting Covid-19 last year. China believes a just cause should be pursued for the common good of mankind. File photo The world is witnessing great changes not seen in a century. …

Published: January 31,2022 By Andrew Korybko A medical worker shows a vial of the COVID-19 vaccine in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March 13, 2021. /Xinhua The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus popularly known nowadays as COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern two years ago on 30 January 2020. …

Published: January 30,2022 By Xin Ge Chinese President Xi Jinping talks with people in DuancunVillage, Fenxi County, north China’s Shanxi Province, January26, 2022. /Xinhua Chinese President Xi Jinping visited north China’s Shanxi Province ahead of the Spring Festival on January 26. President Xi has for 10 consecutive years visited people at the grassroots level, spoken with …

Published: January 28,2022 By staff writer China and Africa have maintained close relations over decades, through frequent exchanges of high level visits. Mutual understanding and trust have been enhanced, and friendly cooperation has yielded abundant fruits.  The successive leaders of China have all attached great importance to the development of …

Publsihed: January 28,2022 By Stephen Ndegwa The emblem of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games is displayed at Yongdingmen Square in Beijing, capital of China, January 17, 2022. /CFP As if the U.S. official boycott of the forthcoming Beijing Winter Olympics was not malicious enough, the country’s …

Published: January 27,2022 By Chu Maoming China has made it clear that we strive for more visible and substantive progress in the well-rounded development of individuals and common prosperity of the entire population. The Resolution of the CPC (Communist Party of China) Central Committee on the Major Achievements and Historical Experience of …

Published:January 26,2022 Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera on Monday sacked his entire cabinet over graft concerns, vowing to “confront all forms of lawless conduct by public officials”. “I have dissolved my entire cabinet effective immediately, and all the functions of cabinet revert to my office until I announce a reconfigured cabinet …

Published: January 21,2022 By Gerald Mbanda and Mustafa Hyder Sayed On Thursday 20, the Pakistan-China Institute (PCI) organized a webinar on the “New Cold War, Playing the Xinjiang card against China, “under its flagship event series, “Friends of Silk Road.” I was glad to be invited to the high level meeting that was insightful on how the US undermines China using false claims of human …

By Helmo Preuss   With the opening of the Winter Olympics just 16 days away, the world is turning its eyes to China, and China is ready. For most South Africans, the Winter Olympics due to start on February 4 in Beijing will be of little interest as South Africa is not sending a …

Published: January 20,2022 By Siyabonga Cwele Political Relations Political and People-to-People Relations between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and South Africa dated back to the liberation movement from the early 1950s and continued until the dawn of democracy in South Africa in 1994. The official diplomatic ties between South Africa and …