{"id":140798,"date":"2025-11-19T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140798"},"modified":"2025-11-19T07:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:00:09","slug":"railway-deal-and-a-toxic-spill-to-top-agenda-as-chinese-premier-visits-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140798","title":{"rendered":"Railway deal and a toxic spill to top agenda as Chinese premier visits Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese Premier Li Qiang will arrive in the Zambian capital Lusaka on Wednesday, with a US$1.4 billion railway modernisation deal high on his agenda.<br \/>\nBut Li could also face political fallout from a toxic spill at a copper mine in the country\u2019s north. Two Chinese mining firms have been sued over the incident that has been described as an \u201cecological catastrophe\u201d by farmers.<br \/>\nIt will be the first visit to Zambia by a top Chinese leader since 2007, and Li\u2019s first trip to sub-Saharan Africa. He will&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3333373\/railway-deal-and-toxic-spill-likely-top-agenda-chinese-premier-visits-zambia?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 Premier Li Qiang will arrive in the Zambian capital Lusaka on Wednesday, with a US$1.4 billion railway modernisation deal high on his agenda.&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\/140798"}],"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=140798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}