{"id":13354,"date":"2026-01-09T14:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/13354\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T14:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:15:07","slug":"chinese-foreign-minister-wang-yi-in-tanzania-as-part-of-annual-africa-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/13354\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Tanzania as part of annual Africa tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s Foreign Minister Wang Yi is in Tanzania, his third stop of an annual Africa trip to expand Beijing&#8217;s long-running relationship with the continent. China and Africa are celebrating the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations this year. Bilateral trade between China and Tanzania rose to US$8.8 billion in 2024, compared to just over US$2 billion in 2020. The recent signing of a US$1.4 billion deal to revitalise the 50-year-old Tanzania-Zambia Railway is also expected to provide Beijing with crucial access to Zambia&#8217;s vast copper reserves. Isaac Lukando reports from Dar es Salaam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Foreign Minister Wang Yi is in Tanzania, his third stop of an annual Africa trip to expand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[63,235,152,6339],"class_list":{"0":"post-13354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tanzania","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-tanzania","11":"tag-wang-yi"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13354","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=13354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}