China’s Wang Yi Foreign Ministerial Annual New Year Tour Of Africa: 2021 Highlights
China’s Wang Yi Foreign Ministerial Annual New Year Tour Of Africa: 2021 Highlights
January 11, 2021 Posted by China Briefing
Written by
Chris Devonshire-Ellis
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8 minutes
Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis
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Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi has been on a Five Nation tour of Africa, taking in Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Botswana, Tanzania, and the Seychelles, in a decades-old tradition where Beijing’s top diplomat always visits the continent at the start of the new year. This has been happening for the last 31 years now.