Xi Jinping

President Xi Jinping promised new trade and investment deals worth over $50bn to African economies creating a million jobs at the 2024 FOCAC but he did not renew Beijing's commitment to significantly increase its purchases of African goods...

5bn grant to complete the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) from Naivasha to Malaba the main outcome of Ruto's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping (AC Vol 66 No 9 Ruto pivots from Washington to Beijing)...

Mozambican officials are more hopeful about the outcome of President Chapo's 16-22 April visit to China immediately after the IMF meeting in which the Beijing-Maputo ties were feted by President Xi Jinping as a ‘model for China-Africa ties...

The other two important absences were Russia's Vladimir Putin who could have faced attempts to serve an International Criminal Court arrest warrant on him and China's Xi Jinping who sent his prime minister Li Qiang the second highest official in the Beijing government...

It came less than a year after China's President Xi Jinping had promised new trade and investment deals worth over US$50 billion to African economies that would create a million jobs...

And China's President Xi Jinping is unlikely to show given his limited travel since the pandemic...

As Bongo had only given Chinese President Xi Jinping a verbal assurance of the base's viability Nguema's takeover placed its construction on ice...

Ahead of the FOCAC summit South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa and China's Xi Jinping held talks saying afterwards that they planned to expand cooperation in renewable energy energy storage and power transmission and distribution...

Saïed who rode to power on an anti-corruption ticket in 2019 is now accused of nepotism with his wife's nephew being awarded the sole dealership licence for China's Bestune cars a month after Saïed met with President 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...