{"id":133408,"date":"2024-09-02T09:05:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T06:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/china-rolls-out-the-red-carpet-for-african-leaders\/"},"modified":"2024-09-02T09:05:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T06:05:48","slug":"china-rolls-out-the-red-carpet-for-african-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/china-rolls-out-the-red-carpet-for-african-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"China rolls out the red carpet for African leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133408\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>China on Monday rolled out the red carpet for leaders from across Africa, seeking to deepen ties with the resource-rich continent it has furnished with billions in loans for infrastructure and development. Beijing has said this week\u2019s China-Africa forum will be its largest diplomatic event since the Covid-19 pandemic, with more than a dozen leaders and delegations expected.<\/p>\n<p>China has sent hundreds of thousands of workers to Africa to build its megaprojects while tapping the continent\u2019s vast natural resources including copper, gold, lithium and rare earth minerals. Its vast loans to the continent have funded infrastructure but also stoked controversy by saddling countries with huge debts. China, the world\u2019s number two economy, is Africa\u2019s largest trading partner, with bilateral trade hitting $167.8 billion in the first half of this year, according to Chinese state media.<\/p>\n<p>Security is tight across Beijing, with roads and bus stops bedecked with banners declaring China and the continent are \u201cjoining hands for a brighter future\u201d. Among the leaders in the capital is South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who arrived early Monday for a four-day visit during which he will also visit the southern tech powerhouse city of Shenzhen. Trade between China and South Africa soared to $38.8 billion in 2023, according to the South African presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa is set to take part in a welcoming ceremony Monday at Beijing\u2019s ornate Great Hall of People and lay a wreath \u201cin honour of Chinese revolutionaries\u201d in Tiananmen Square, his office said. The two countries will sign a number of agreements focused on \u201cenhancing economic cooperation and the implementation of technical cooperation\u201d, it added.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, President Xi Jinping met with Democratic Republic of the Congo Felix Tshisekedi, state news agency Xinhua said. China has a significant presence in the DRC, where it is keen on tapping vast natural resources including copper, gold, lithium and rare earth minerals. But it has grappled with security issues in the country \u2014 in July, local sources told AFP that a militia attack on a mining site in gold-rich Ituri province killed at least four Chinese nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders of Djibouti \u2014 home to China\u2019s first overseas military base \u2014 as well as Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Mali and others, also arrived in Beijing on Sunday and Monday.Beijing\u2019s loans to African nations last year were their highest in five years, research by the Chinese Loans to Africa Database found. Top borrowers were Angola, Ethiopia, Egypt, Nigeria and Kenya. But the data showed that loans were well down compared to highs in 2016, when they totalled almost $30 billion.<\/p>\n<p>And the loans were increasingly to local banks, researchers said, helping to avoid \u201cexposing Chinese creditors to credit risks associated with those countries\u201d. Analysts say an economic slowdown in China has made Beijing increasingly reluctant to shell out big sums. This week\u2019s summit comes as African leaders eye mounting great power competition between the US and China over resources and influence on the continent. Washington has warned against what it sees as Beijing\u2019s malign influence. In 2022, the White House said China sought to \u201cadvance its own narrow commercial and geopolitical interests (and) undermine transparency and openness\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/world\/china-rolls-out-the-red-carpet-for-african-leaders\/article\">DJ<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/china-rolls-out-the-red-carpet-for-african-leaders\/\">China rolls out the red carpet for African leaders<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[15940,758,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-133408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-african-leaders","tag-china","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}