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China-Africa: What to expect from this year’s FOCAC

This Friday South Africa will host the sixth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), atriannual summit jointly convened by China and the Africa Union. The forum will be Africa’s highest-profile diplomatic meet-up this year, and is being presented as a rare moment of South African leadership. But despite widespread media interest, we doubt that the meeting will prove to be a defining moment for China-Africa relations.

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