a few partnerships and few areas of cooperation that have opened up since the last year and we are going to see of course, she mentioned earlier, continuing cooperation in terms of exchanges between government officials, local and regional state governments, cultural exchanges are going to continue to be important. students, scholarships and exchanges between media journalists and so on. these are going to continue in the china africa relations. continue in the china africa relations- relations. we saw a lot of vaccines relations. we saw a lot of vaccines been relations. we saw a lot of vaccines been sent - relations. we saw a lot ofj vaccines been sent across relations. we saw a lot of i vaccines been sent across to africa from china as well. that is all we have got time for now. thank you very much down. thank you very much down. with just a few months to go to the winter olympics, china is holding test events
For China, the establishment of banks in Nigeria presents an opportunity to further integrate itself with the financial systems of the African continent.
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March 11, 2021
Africans vilified the Chinese, blaming them for the Covid-19 pandemic. At the same time, China was blaming Africans for the pandemic, too. Viral videos in March and April 2020 showed Chinese authorities forcibly evicting Africans from their homes in Guangzhou, China, for allegedly spreading Covid-19.
These actions sparked an uproar on the continent. On social media, there were calls for deporting Chinese residents in Africa. The Twitter hashtag #DeportRacistChinese trended throughout the continent.
Beijing sought to improve its pandemic-era image in Africa with “mask diplomacy,” an effort to supply the continent with vaccines, medical equipment and personnel and it worked.