South Africa vows to expand its trade portfolio to create more balance and tackle a growing trade deficit which heavily ...

South African Deputy President Paul Mashatile has called on China to urgently open it’s market to more local goods to cut an ...

While the relationship between South Africa and China has mutually benefited both nations through increased trade and ...

FOCAC 2024 marked a milestone, but 2025 is the year that will test whether upgraded ties can deliver real outcomes.

China’s push to globalize its currency, the yuan, is gaining traction in Africa, with the continent emerging as a strategic ...

South African central bank chief Lesetja Kganyago flagged that dollar depreciation because of US tariffs and deflation in ...

Total trade between China and Africa was worth $296bn in 2024. Yet the value of what China exported west ($179bn) was much higher than what Africa sent east ($117bn). This year, partly as a result of ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s new Africa strategy shifts from aid to trade under a “commercial diplomacy” push, urging ...

According to the China Africa Research Initiative, Chinese loans to Africa dropped from $29.4 billion in 2016 to $8.9 billion in 2018.

China has granted up to $178 billion in loans to 52 African nations over the past two decades, according to the School of Advanced and International Studies' China Africa Research Initiative.

African Union Chairman Moussa Faki denied that China has a monopoly on business in Africa, adding, “I think the Africans are mature enough to engage in partnerships of their own volition which ...

The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation is held once every three years, and Beijing uses the event to announce new plans for foreign investment. At the last forum in 2015, which was held in South ...