Zoom Lecture: China-Africa Cooperation and the Role of Europe in the Changing World
On 21 June 2022, the China-CEE Institute invited Prof. LI Xinfeng, Executive President of China-Africa Institute, Director General of Institute of West Asian and African Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, to deliver a lecture entitled “China-Africa Cooperation and the Role of Europe in the Changing World”. The Institute’s non-resident researchers, researchers from partner institutions and other scholars participated in the lecture.
In this lecture, Prof. LI examined three stages of China-Africa ties from ancient time to the present days and highlighted that China has close and friendly contact with African countries more than one thousand years. Regarding the current contentious issues surrounding the “debt problems,” claimed primarily by the western media, of African countries, Prof. LI defended that the causes of the debt problems occurred in some African countries are not from China, but rather the countries’ own systematically poor financial situation. In order to assist African nations in solving their difficulties, China and the rest of the globe should deepen their cooperation with them. In this regard, trilateral collaboration between Africa, China, and the EU has great promise for the development of African nations during the post-pandemic and post-regional political crisis periods.
The lecture lasted about one and half hours in total. During the Q & A session, the participants posed several questions about the possible direction of China-African cooperation in the pandemic and region political crisis, related issues on African students studying in China, etc.
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