Li Keqiang Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/li-keqiang/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 03 Dec 2014 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Li Keqiang Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/li-keqiang/ 32 32 SA and Chinese presidents meet https://jjcornish.com/2014/12/sa-chinese-presidents-meet/ Wed, 03 Dec 2014 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2014/12/sa-chinese-presidents-meet/ President Jacob Zuma’s meeting his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing today on the first day of a state visit to China. Earlier he saw Chinese premier Li Keqiang who praised South Africa’s commitment to relations between the two  BRICS members. ends intro Bilateral trade between South Africa rose 32 percent last year to R270 […]

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]]> President Jacob Zuma’s meeting his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing today on the first day of a state visit to China.
Earlier he saw Chinese premier Li Keqiang who praised South Africa’s commitment to relations between the two  BRICS members.
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Bilateral trade between South Africa rose 32 percent last year to R270 billion, prompting President Jacob Zuma to tell Prime Minister Li that it’s time to inject new impetus into relations between the countries.
On the discussion cards  Zuma and the seven cabinet ministers with him have is the sale of a nuclear power station to South Africa.
China’s competing with France and Russia to make the deal.

 

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]]> Chinese to transform Africa’s rail network https://jjcornish.com/2014/05/chinese-transform-africas-rail-network/ Thu, 08 May 2014 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2014/05/chinese-transform-africas-rail-network/ For more than a century, Africans have nursed the dream of taking a train across the continent, only to see various railroad schemes crash and burn. Now, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is vowing to make it come true, expressing support for a continent-wide railroad network in Africa, a bold promise and a tall order but […]

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]]> For more than a century, Africans have nursed the dream of taking a train across the continent, only to see various railroad schemes crash and burn. Now, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is vowing to make it come true, expressing support for a continent-wide railroad network in Africa, a bold promise and a tall order but one that could transform the economy.

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