Pragmatic, Strategic and Wide-Reaching: The CCP’s Party Diplomacy in Africa

Megatrends Policy Brief 29, 28.10.2024, 11 Pages

doi:10.18449/2024MTA-PB29

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This policy brief analyses recent patterns and motives of China’s party diplomacy in Africa. It finds that the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP-ID) maintains close ties with the main ruling parties in some countries in the South and East of the continent as well as a broad range of parties in countries in North Africa.

A symposium on the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is held in Nairobi, Kenya, Feb. 23, 2023.

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