Following the passage of five years from when President Xi Jinping first introduced the Global Development Initiative (GDI) to the world in a speech delivered during the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, the China offices of the UN development system, and […]
In a keynote address delivered at the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) in April of 2022, China’s President, H.E Xi Jinping introduced to his audience for the very first time a concept aimed at guiding the world through the security questions of the modern age dubbed the Global Security Initiative (GSI). A report released by […]
In an address delivered during the 2024 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Summit in Beijing, President Xi Jinping suggested that the diplomatic statuses between China and the African countries with whom it cooperates bilaterally be elevated to the level of “strategic relations.” Further, he proposed that the relationship of his nation and the continent at […]
In the lead up to independence, Africa had some of the most vibrant political parties anywhere in the world. With just a few decades passed however, majority of them died out while those that remain in power are struggling to remain relevant. We could argue that these vehicles served their purpose and that as such, […]
In May 2026, President Xi Jinping and his Egyptian counterpart H.E Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi exchanged congratulatory letters in commemoration of a very important moment in China-Africa affairs. Seventy years prior, in a move whose ramifications nobody would have predicated, Cairo became the first modern day nation on the continent to formally commence diplomatic relations with the […]
At the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in 2024, President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) confirmed that Beijing and Africa had agreed to designate the year that we are in now as the China-Africa Year of People-to-People Exchanges and true to his word, the said vision has been the hallmark of diplomatic […]
Many keeping a close eye on the influence of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) on global affairs will know about the moment in 2023 when President Xi Jinping first presented the Global Civilization Initiative during a keynote address to the Communist Party of China in Dialogue with World Political Parties High-Level Meeting. A similar […]
On the night of Tuesday, May 19th, the President of the Russian Federation arrived in Beijing, China for a remarkable two days state visit (together with President Xi Jinping, the Eastern European leader signed twenty agreements). At the same time, given that the said mission followed that of President Trump merely four days after, the […]
Although the presidents of two of the world’s biggest economies have been in regular communication for some time now including when they physically met in Busan, South Korea last year, President Donald Trump’s recent visit to Beijing (May 14-15) was at a whole other level if for no other reason because it was the first […]
On Sunday April 12th, Spain’s Prime Minister (PM) Pedro Sánchez landed in China for a five days state visit making him the sixth European statesman to do so between December 2025 and April 2026. The leaders coming before him were; Emmanuel Macron of France, Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom (UK), Friedrich Merz of Germany, […]
