FOCAC officially ended on Friday after a week of high-level meetings and discussions. The China-Africa Summit adopted by consensus the Beijing Declaration on Jointly Building an All-Weather China-Africa Community with a Shared Future in the New Era.
With our correspondent in Beijing, Clea Broadhurst
$50 billion in new financing for Africa over the next three years: that’s the big announcement of the forum. It will help develop the continent’s infrastructure, agriculture and green energy.
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The watchword is modernization, the Chinese president Xi Jinping hammered it home several times, notes our correspondent in Beijing, Clea BroadhurstHis wish is to launch a wave of modernization of the global south and write a new chapter in the construction of a community of the future.
Partnerships established or strengthened
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