Xi Jinping

With bilateral trade passing $10bn in 2023 Chinese ambassador Li Jian in early March told a forum in Sétif that following Tebboune's visit to Beijing and talks with President Xi Jinping last June 'new summits' could be reached...

President Ali Bongo Ondimba reportedly told astonished United States officials just before Nguema overthrew him in August that he had promised President Xi Jinping that China could station military forces in his country...

At the first China-Arab States summit held in Riyadh in December 2022 President Saïed's talks on the margins of the conference with President Xi Jinping although amicable had no tangible outcomes...

And China's President Xi Jinping was eager to preside over these changes (AC Vol 64 No 18 Beijing asserts global south leadership role)...

China's Xi Jinping had been greeted effusively and in-person by President Cyril Ramaphosa the previous day...

The possibility of the summit being moved to Beijing was mooted during Ramaphosa's recent telephone call with Xi Jinping although it is unclear if the Chinese president agreed...

While Tshisekedi was afforded an official state visit in Beijing and talks with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping he did not return home with any new commitments on infrastructure financing or investment and no pledges were forthcoming on the mining deals...

Whatever the true explanation observers also thought it significant that such a rare incident should occur on the very day China's President Xi Jinping's plane landed in Moscow...

This year South Africa chairs the BRICS grouping and will host its summit later this year an event due could bring Russia's President Vladimir Putin and China's President Xi Jinping along with massive international attention to South Africa...

But the risk at that meeting which is set to be the first face-to-face encounter since the pandemic between China's Xi Jinping Russia's Vladimir Putin and US's Joe Biden is that geopolitics again push cooperations on debt and climate to the margins...