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China is boosting its ties to Africa, with zero-tariff trade and a year-long people-to-people exchange initiative, aiming to expand investment and infrastructure development across the continent

China announces major push to strengthen its partnership with Africa amid US trade tension

China is boosting its ties to Africa, with zero-tariff trade and a year-long people-to-people exchange initiative, aiming to expand investment and infrastructure development across the continent

Cooperation: Trains in Nigeria are part of China’s initiatives in Africa that includes infrastructure development.  (Emma Houston/Xinhua/AFP)

China announces major push to strengthen its partnership with Africa amid US trade tension

China is boosting its ties to Africa, with zero-tariff trade and a year-long people-to-people exchange initiative, aiming to expand investment and infrastructure development across the continent

Trump-ed it: The Johannesburg Declaration placed debt relief, climate finance and fair value for critical
minerals at the centre of the global agenda. Photo: Gauteng Provincial Government

South Africa shrugs off Trump theatrics post G20, plans to attend 2026 summit

South Africa’s risk is not expulsion, which the G20’s rules do not allow, but a year of disruption that could blunt the gains of its presidency

President Cyril Ramaphosa told delegates that all G20 members except the US had signed the declaration.

Breaking with G20 custom, world leaders adopt declaration at start of annual summit

President Cyril Ramaphosa told delegates that all G20 members except the US had signed the declaration

G20: President Cyril Ramaphosa will host leaders from 42 countries at the two-day G20 leaders’ summit in
Johannesburg this weekend. Photo: GCIS

G20: All eyes on Ramaphosa

The absence of US President Donald Trump, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin puts the spotlight squarely on President Cyril Ramaphosa and South Africa

President Cyril Ramaphosa said the uncertainty of the new trading regime had already harmed the country’s economy

Brics leaders call for cooperation in protectionist global environment

President Cyril Ramaphosa said the uncertainty of the new trading regime had already harmed the country’s economy

Chinese ambassador Wu Peng. (X)

UPDATED: China trade to ‘soften blow of US tariffs’

China’s ambassador said South Africa’s call to narrow its trade deficit and diversify exports required building local beneficiation capacity

China’s Presdent Xi Jinping.

From tariffs to talks: Can Washington and Beijing sustain this fragile truce?

The trade truce between the US and China might be fragile and conditional but it’s a step towards dialogue and stability amid ongoing rivalry

US President Donald Trump. (File photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Will Trump continue his ‘tough on China’ stance?

The US and China could recognise that their roles as global stakeholders demand collaboration on issues such as climate change, technological innovation and global trade

Renaldo Gouws.

COLUMN: Cabanac and Gouws, racism’s Distruction Boyz

The pod bros will revive their mission to kill non-racialism and feed it to the pigs

Both the US and China have already issued counter warnings to would-be double-dealers who might wish to strike trade deals at the expense of each other’s interests.

2024: Another round in the superpower smackdown?

Tensions between the US and China could come to a head early this year, posing another risk to the global economy

President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of China Xi Jinping, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pose for a BRICS family photo during the 2023 BRICS Summit at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg. Photo by GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

Brics leaders call for immediate truce in Israeli-Hamas war

China demanded an end to ‘collective punishment’ inflicted on Gaza, at a virtual summit chaired by President Cyril Ramaphosa

US President Joe Biden. (Photo by MIRIAM ALSTER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

The casualties of Biden’s stance on Israel

The US president could pay dearly at the polls, as the global economy counts the costs of fracturing