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By Adhere Cavince | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-01-21 08:58 Share CLOSE Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (L) meets with Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Onyeama in Abuja, Nigeria, on Jan 5, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua] Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi recently concluded a five-nation visit to Africa, extending a three-decade-long tradition in which Chinese foreign ministers have chosen Africa for their first overseas visit each year. In choosing to visit Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Botswana, Tanzania and Seychelles, Wang demonstrated that China treats all African countries as important partners irrespective of size, geography or political influence.
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Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi has been on a Five Nation tour of Africa, taking in Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Botswana, Tanzania, and the Seychelles, in a decades-old tradition where Beijing’s top diplomat always visits the continent at the start of the new year. This has been happening for the last 31 years now.
As Winston Churchill had said, “Never let a crisis go to waste”. While we suffer from setbacks as a result of COVID-19 at different levels, we know that as long as we are alive, we would have to find ways to move forward. In finding ways to move forward and taking Africa along, China bolsters its cooperation with Africa in the first three days of 2021 by launching the nation’s first free trade agreement (with Mauritius after three years of negotiations. Meanwhile, in keeping to its promise made 31 years ago, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi is visiting five African nations – Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Botswana, Tanzania and Seychelles.