{"id":133113,"date":"2025-07-19T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133113"},"modified":"2025-07-19T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T12:00:09","slug":"focac-at-25-how-china-leapfrogs-other-nations-to-build-close-african-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133113","title":{"rendered":"FOCAC at 25: How China \u2018leapfrogs\u2019 other nations to build close African ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi last month highlighted Beijing\u2019s \u201cleapfrog development\u201d in ties with African countries in the 25 years since the setting up of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC).<br \/>\nAddressing a FOCAC ministerial event on June 11, Wang noted that trade had surged nearly 30-fold while Chinese investment had grown almost 100-fold since the strategic dialogue mechanism was set up in 2000.<br \/>\nIn parallel to closer economic ties, there has also been increased cooperation on the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3318574\/how-china-leapfrogs-other-nations-build-close-african-trade-and-military-ties?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi last month highlighted Beijing\u2019s \u201cleapfrog development\u201d in ties with African countries in the 25 years since the setting up&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133113"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}