BEIJING: Chinese leader Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to South Africa next week, the foreign ministry said on Friday (Aug 18), while confirming the president will attend the
Africa has emerged as a renewed diplomatic battleground, with the West, Russia and China vying for influence amid heightened competition for minerals and international divisions fostered by the war in Ukraine.
This will be Xi's second international trip of 2023, after paying an official state visit to Russia in March. On the agenda at this year's Johannesburg summit will be the possible future expansion of BRICS membership. In July, China hosted Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in Beijing, hailing its ties with Africa and calling for closer cooperation.
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