China: Sino-Africa links purely mutual
CHINA’s bilateral relation with Africa remains purely by choice without any political strings attached, a senior government official has insisted. Tanzania is one of the African nations which enjoy bilateral cooperation with the East Asian economic giant and the world’s second largest economy. Director General of African Affairs Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mr Dai Bing noted that China is very sincere in its cooperation with the continent. “In the past, Africa had no choice. For now the continent has a chance for making right choice to make economic globalisation more open, inclusive, beneficial, and balanced and a win-win proposition,” he noted. Mr Dai who was speaking to African journalists who are in a 10-month special training programme in China, asserted that the two sides needed to jointly work together to tackle challenges that emerge. He noted that as China is promoting its own development and expanding opening up policy, the world’s most populous nation at