Chinese official media coverage of Wang Yi’s visit to Nigeria closely adhered to the Foreign Ministry’s three priorities for its policy in Africa: 1) vaccine cooperation, 2) economic recovery and 3) a yet to be defined concept called “transformative development.”
On the CGTN talk show Dialogue, host Zou Yue spoke with one of China’s most well-known Africa scholars, He Wenping, a research fellow with the Institute of West-Asian and African Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said health security is the paramount concern in China-Africa relations, as long as COVID-19 remains uncontrolled.
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