As China hosts this year’s Belt & Road Forum in April, what should Africa and the world at large expect? Bukola Ogunsina writes
The Chinese President Xi Jinping mentioned on 17 November 2018, that the second Belt & Road Forum (BRF) would be held in Beijing in April this year 2019. The BRF is just around the corner, and as usual it is expected that several countries across the globe will be in attendance.
China had in time past concerned itself with its internal development. And now, having reached a satisfactory level, ‘Zhongguo’ as the country is also fondly called in Chinese, commenced its reform and opening up to the world, working arduously to improve on its foreign policies and further cement its relationship with other countries.
During this period of reform and opening up, China introduced several projects to embrace and maintain cordial relations with the rest of the globe, one of such projects is the Belt & Road initiative, also called ‘Yi dai, Yi…
