China pledged to deepen cooperation and exchanges with Tanzania on Friday as its top diplomat toured the region, promising that Beijing would \u201calways stand together\u201d with Africa.<\/p>\n
Wang Yi also called on Tanzania to work with China to uphold international law and multilateralism, in what one observer said would be the Chinese foreign minister\u2019s key message to Africa amid Washington\u2019s apparent retreat from the rules-based international system<\/a>.Wang will wrap up his six-day tour<\/a> of the continent on Monday. His trip featured stops in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Lesotho. He initially planned to visit Somalia \u2013 in what would have been the first visit by a Chinese foreign minister since the 1980s \u2013 but the trip was postponed on Friday. China\u2019s embassy in Somalia cited \u201cscheduling conflicts\u201d as the reason for the change in itinerary.Continuing a 36-year tradition, the Chinese foreign minister chose Africa for his first overseas destination of the year. The ministry earlier touted China-Africa ties<\/a> as having \u201cgrown by leaps and bounds\u201d.<\/p>\n On Friday, Wang held talks with his Tanzanian counterpart, Mahmoud Thabit Kombo, in Dar es Salaam, describing ties between the two countries as \u201cbuilt through the trials and tribulations of several generations\u201d.<\/p>\n According to a Chinese foreign ministry statement, Wang said Beijing cherished the friendship and was willing to work with the new Tanzanian government to \u201cmaintain a high level of mutual trust, firmly support each other, [and] deepen exchanges and cooperation\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China pledged to deepen cooperation and exchanges with Tanzania on Friday as its top diplomat toured the region,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[63,8603,587,235,7410,1118,65,582,8605,10809,1984,152,1359,742,6339],"class_list":{"0":"post-16926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tanzania","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-african-union","10":"tag-beijing","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-china-africa","13":"tag-dar-es-salaam","14":"tag-ethiopia","15":"tag-global-south","16":"tag-lesotho","17":"tag-mahmoud-thabit-kombo","18":"tag-somalia","19":"tag-tanzania","20":"tag-united-nations","21":"tag-venezuela","22":"tag-wang-yi"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16926","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=16926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}