Browsing: China President Xi Jinping

• Trade between China and Tanzania grew by 23.7% year-on-year, reaching US$8.31 billion in 2022
• China pledges increased cooperation under its Global Development Initiative
• As of 2022, trade volume between China and Africa reached US$282 billion dollars, an 11.1% year-on-year growth.

China-Tanzania relations can be measured in growing trade portfolios and can be seen in Chinese President Xi Jinping’s choice to make Tanzania the first African country to visit when he came into power in 2013.

Not only was Tanzania President Xi’s first African country to visit but his first overseas trip since assuming the presidency.

In his speech 10 years ago, delivered at the Julius Nyerere International Convention Center which was built with Chinese assistance, President Xi cemented relations between the two long-term friends and partners.

In his speech titled; “Be Trustworthy Friends and Sincere Partners Forever,” President Xi emphasized the principles of sincerity, goodwill, good faith, and pursuing the …

• China reopening after lifting restrictions under the zero-Covid-policy
• 2023 to be a tough recovery year for Beijing
• President Xi Jinping to lead China recovery

As China is about to finish the Year of the Tiger in January in what was meant to be a year of recovery, what is in store for Sino-Africa relations?

President Xi Jinping has had his hands full this past few years the least of reasons not been the Covid-19 that has severely slumped China’s otherwise skyrocketing economic trajectory.

To keep its people safe and to some extent, to show the world that it is taking all measures to prevent the mistakes of 2019 that led to the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Whether it is a US-Euro politically triggered compliance, or its own strong arm, China has gone over and above the general world’s response post the pandemic.

Beijing, initiated its zero-Covid-policy, characterized by widespread …

Xi Jinping has elevated the China-Africa friendship to its most significant level since Mao Zedong’s reign. With Xi getting a third five-year term and perhaps staying in power even longer, those relations will strengthen further. Thus, Africa will remain pivotal in China’s plans for global economic control.…