China’s President Xi Jinping pens letter to African scholars

Mapaseka Mogotsi

EARLY last month, Gert Grobler, senior research fellow at the Institute of African Studies at Zhejiang Normal University and a former senior diplomat in the South African Department of International Relations and Co-operation, together with 63 scholars from 50 African countries, sent a joint letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping. In the letter, they extended their warmest congratulations on the successful convening of the third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and highly appreciated the historic achievements of the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC). They hoped the new FOCAC summit would write a new chapter for building a China-Africa community with a shared future and modernising the Global South. On August 27, President Xi Jinping wrote a letter back to the scholars, encouraging…

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