Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. President Xi said China stands ready to work with Africa to implement ten partnership action plans to jointly advance modernization.

Joining the discussion: 

• Abdullahi Boru Halakhe is an Africa Security and Policy Analyst.
• David Monyae is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Director of the Centre for Africa-China Studies at the University of Johannesburg.
• John Gong is a Professor of Economics at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing.  
• He Wenping is a Senior Research Fellow with the Institute of West Asian and African Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

The China-Africa partnership is a pillar of South-South cooperation.

Today in Beijing, I stressed the @UN’s commitment for this cooperation & the deep reforms the global financial architecture needs to ensure development leaves no one behind. pic.twitter.com/TUOXIc3pcD

— António Guterres (@antonioguterres) September 5, 2024

No country should fall behind on the road to modernization, Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed as he called for joint efforts of China and Africa to contribute to the modernization of the Global South at the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in… pic.twitter.com/xsJQxK4m4w

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