While Tshisekedi was afforded an official state visit in Beijing and talks with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping he did not return home with any new commitments on infrastructure financing or investment and no pledges were forthcoming on the mining deals...

Whatever the true explanation observers also thought it significant that such a rare incident should occur on the very day China's President Xi Jinping's plane landed in Moscow...

This year South Africa chairs the BRICS grouping and will host its summit later this year an event due could bring Russia's President Vladimir Putin and China's President Xi Jinping along with massive international attention to South Africa...

But the risk at that meeting which is set to be the first face-to-face encounter since the pandemic between China's Xi Jinping Russia's Vladimir Putin and US's Joe Biden is that geopolitics again push cooperations on debt and climate to the margins...

Putin and Ramaphosa are due to meet again on 23 June at a virtual summit of the BRICS (Brazil Russia India China South Africa) grouping hosted by Chinese president Xi Jinping...

This obvious clash with greenhouse gas reduction goals is even starker after President Xi Jinping's pledge to the UN General Assembly on 20 September to build no more coal power plants outside China in an important prelude to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow...

The rescheduling with China follows an earlier such arrangement in 2019 and was discussed directly between Sassou-Nguesso and Chinese President Xi Jinping...

Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to Condé on his re-election with senior Chinese government officials offering support to the 82-year-old leader after reports of alleged election fraud emerged...

Rumours and hints have recently been circulating that the President had scrapped the US$10 billion project which officially began in 2013 during a state visit by China's President Xi Jinping...