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The Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC) and The Republic of South Africa (RSA) established official relations in January 1998. During the 2010 Beijing Declaration, South Africa was upgraded to the diplomatic status of Strategic Partner by the Chinese government”. In the same year, trade volume between China and South Africa …

After an unprecedented delay due to the COVID-19 epidemic, China’s largest political gathering, the Two Sessions, opened in Beijing on May 21 and May 22, respectively. But this time, meetings of both the legislature and the top political advisory body were scaled back, both lasting for seven days. Press conferences …

China is working with other G20 members to implement the debt service suspension initiative to ease Africa’s debt burden and it mulls further bilateral support for African countries to fight against COVID-19, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said. Wang made the statement when answering questions from Chinese …

From January-June last year, China’s total import and export volume with Africa was US$101.86 billion, up 2.9% year on year, exceeding the overall growth rate of foreign trade in the same period by 4.9 percentage points – according to statistics from the General Administration of Customs of China. With the …

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi briefed the media about China’s foreign policy priorities in 2020, taking questions from journalists from around the world at a press conference on the sidelines of the third session of the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC). Here are some highlights of the …

Africa was colonised mainly if not solely by Europe, and to dispute this fact you  have to invent a new history chapter to find any proof to the contrary. From North Africa to Southern Africa and all you hear are colonisers like Italy, Belgium, France, Germany, Britain to name but …

On May 18, President Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the World Health Assembly (WHA), making key policy statements of how China has planned to engage with the rest of the world post COVID-19, and how China would preserve, protect and promote multilateralism and the fruits of globalization by …

The battle against COVID-19 in Rwanda is on high gear. Under the leadership of President Paul Kagame, the Rwanda government has been consistently following the people-centered approach and taking science-based,comprehensive and rigorous measures, which haveachieved major progress in containing the pandemic. The latest statistics released by the Rwandan Ministry of …

Over time, digital technologies have grown exponentially globally, enabling new economic pathways and disrupting legacy sectors with efficiency and scale. In 2016, the World Bank estimated the global digital economy at USD 11.5 trillion, about 15.5% of the world’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), with a projected 25% contribution to the …