{"id":39594,"date":"2021-12-08T09:24:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T00:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/08\/more-cautious-china-shifts-africa-approach-from-debt-to-vaccine-diplomacy"},"modified":"2021-12-08T09:24:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T00:24:46","slug":"more-cautious-china-shifts-africa-approach-from-debt-to-vaccine-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39594","title":{"rendered":"\u2018More cautious\u2019 China shifts Africa approach from debt to vaccine diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: After two decades of major financial aid, Beijing is rethinking its strategy on continent amid Covid crisis and fierce competition for power, analysts say<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As debt concerns rise and a new coronavirus variant emerges, China appears to be adjusting its approach to Africa: cutting finance pledges while doubling down on vaccine diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday last week, China\u2019s leader, Xi Jinping, opened a China-Africa forum with a pledge to supply 1bn vaccine doses to Africa, amid global concern over the emergence of the Omicron variant of Covid-19. He also pledged $40bn to the continent, ranging from credit lines to investments \u2013 a significant cut from the $60bn promised at the previous two summits.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/08\/more-cautious-china-shifts-africa-approach-from-debt-to-vaccine-diplomacy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: After two decades of major financial aid, Beijing is rethinking its strategy on continent amid Covid crisis and fierce competition for power, analysts sayCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAs debt concerns rise and a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2500,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,247,50,1066,59,565,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-aid","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-global-development","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39595,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39594\/revisions\/39595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}