South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday welcomed Yang Jiechi, Special Envoy of President Xi Jinping of China, as he opened a two-day official visit in Cape Town. Ramaphosa said the re-election of President Xi presented an opportunity for South Africa to deepen its strategic cooperation with China at a…
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says 2018 will bring more cooperation with African nations, and investments in both African initiatives and the diplomatic relationships that support them. Wang, speaking in Beijing at this weekend’s opening ceremony of the Symposium on International Developments and China’s Diplomacy in 2017, gave a comprehensive review…
Egypt moved one step closer toward establishing its space agency on Wednesday, as the Council of Ministers approved a plan that’s been slow to move forward but now has a big boost from China. The space agency plan, now headed for parliament, builds on an initial phase in the space…
African nations look east to China as a model for their own countries’ economic and social life, with respondents in three of five African regions saying that China either matches or exceeds the approval that Africans have for the United States. That’s according to a new report from Afrobarometer, the…
The University of Cape Town has been ranked as the 4th top university in the Times Higher Education “BRICS and Emerging Economies” ranking for 2015. It comes after, Peking University, Tsinghua Univeristy, both in China, and the Middle East Technical University in Turkey. These universities are quickly becoming top competition…