Ten years ago, when China proposed the Belt and Road Initiative, Andrew Gatera, then a college student in Beijing, could hardly imagine it would play such a big role in his career in Africa.
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In Morocco, we have a popular story of a farmer asking a passerby to climb a fig tree to pick some figs to eat. Once the passerby is up the tree, the farmer gets angry and yells, "Get down, who asked you to do that?"
President Xi Jinping's recent speech at the 22nd meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization represented a call for the world to shun a Cold War mentality and zero-sum thinking and uphold the Shanghai Spirit to forge common answers to the needs of our times, several analysts said.