The Belt and Road Institute in Sweden (BRIX) will host a webinar online on the China-Africa cooperation under the umbrella of the Belt and Road initiative on Thursday, January 9th, at 2 pm (Central European Time). We will host a group of experts from China and several African countries.
China’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wang Yi, is visiting Namibia, the Republic of Congo, Chad, and Nigeria from January 5 to 11, continuing the tradition of a Chinese foreign minister visiting Africa on the first overseas trip at the start of the year for 35 consecutive years.
According to the Chinese news agency Xinhua, the tour by Wang is aimed at promoting the implementation of the outcomes of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Beijing Summit in 2024, deepening practical cooperation in various fields, and promoting the sustained and in-depth development of China-Africa relations.
At the FOCAC Beijing Summit last year, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed that bilateral relations between China and all African countries having diplomatic ties with China be elevated to the level of strategic relations, and that the overall characterization of China-Africa relations be elevated to an all-weather China-Africa community with a shared future for the new era. President Xi also proposed that China and Africa should jointly advance modernization characterized by six features and pledged that China will work with Africa to take the ten partnership actions for modernization, which have received warm response from the African side.
When the 2024 FOCAC summit was starting on September, 4, 2024 a front page article by the BRIX vice-Chairman Hussein Askary, was published by China Daily, outlining the importance and scope of cooperation that needs to be reached to achieve the goals of African Agenda 2063.
In the upcoming webinar, experts from China and Africa will join our BRIX members in discussing the strategic importance of China-Africa cooperation and how Sweden and Europe should respond to it.
The webinar is free of charge and does not require registration. Just click the Zoom link below to join!
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85874806387?pwd=jCUIlo1Rau2vKWaJqp7HpqyCL0jBHT.1
Date: Thursday, January 9, 2024
Time: 2 PM (Central European Time Zone)