Toward a Stronger China-Africa Community
What are your expectations for developing China-Africa relations in the complex and fluid international landscape?
Yang Jiechi: This year (2019) marks the 70th anniversary of New China’s diplomacy. Over the past 70 years, the unbreakable friendship between China and Africa has stood the test of time and international vicissitudes and has continued to flourish. Developing friendly ties and cooperation with African countries has been the consistent basic policy and firm strategic direction of China’s diplomacy.
President Xi Jinping has given personal attention to this relationship. Since he took office, he has visited Africa four times and held meetings or talks with most African leaders. He has proposed the principles of sincerity, real results, amity and good faith and the pursuit of the greater good and shared interests in China’s relations with Africa. This has pointed the way for and lent strong impetus to
