There was a lot of excitement on January 1st when China’s first free trade agreement went into effect with Mauritius, Beijing’s first FTA with a country in sub-Saharan Africa.
But just a month later many observers are growing concerned about a country that imports $1.4 billion and exports just $1.3 million to China could ever benefit from an open borders agreement on trade.
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