{"id":12682,"date":"2026-01-09T07:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/12682\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:11:08","slug":"china-fm-wang-yi-opens-africa-tour-with-united-call-for-rules-based-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/12682\/","title":{"rendered":"China FM Wang Yi opens Africa tour with united call for rules-based order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/china-africa-relations?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">China and the African Union<\/a> issued a joint call to uphold an international law-based order, with particular respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, in a display of unity against Washington\u2019s raid on Venezuela.Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and African Union chief Mahmoud Ali Youssouf expressed concerns over <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/us-venezuela-conflict?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the events in Venezuela<\/a> in a statement released after their meeting in Ethiopia on Thursday.The United States raided Venezuela on Saturday and abducted its leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife to New York. President <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/donald-trump?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> also said the US would be in direct control of the country, including its oil.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In the statement, both sides also reaffirmed that \u201cthe sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries must be respected and the fundamental principles of the United Nations Charter and international law must be adhered to\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">As members of the Global South, China and the African Union were committed to supporting each other to safeguard their respective core interests and concerns, as well as further strengthening coordination and cooperation to \u201cinject positive momentum into global and regional peace, stability and development\u201d, it said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1o401188 css-1w1l3op e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767942668_8_maxresdefault.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewDuration\" class=\"css-1vqvq42 e1o401181\">16:09<\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewTitle\" class=\"css-zasw6y e1o401182\">How China is reshaping its economic ties with Africa<\/p>\n<p>How China is reshaping its economic ties with Africa<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Wang was in Ethiopia, which hosts the African Union headquarters, on the first stop of his tour of the continent, which has been the first overseas destination of the year for Chinese foreign ministers over 36 consecutive years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China and the African Union issued a joint call to uphold an international law-based order, with particular respect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2888,2890,63,8603,587,8606,235,750,65,1097,8605,8604,1984,2059,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-12682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ethiopia","8":"tag-abiy-ahmed","9":"tag-addis-ababa","10":"tag-africa","11":"tag-african-union","12":"tag-beijing","13":"tag-belt-and-road-initiative","14":"tag-china","15":"tag-donald-trump","16":"tag-ethiopia","17":"tag-horn-of-africa","18":"tag-lesotho","19":"tag-red-sea","20":"tag-somalia","21":"tag-somaliland","22":"tag-tanzania"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}