Tuesday’s meeting between the Chinese and Somali Foreign Ministers at the United Nations in New York largely went unnoticed amid Wang Yi’s other much more high-profile speeches and bilaterals that he held that day.
But Wang’s decision to meet with Fiqi is notable, though, because it probably wouldn’t have happened a year ago when Mogadishu was still on China’s naughty list for signing a pair of letters at the UN Human Rights Council that criticized Beijing’s treatment of its Uyghur minority population in Xinjiang.