Chinese President Xi Jinping has met with Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Gaston Browne. The Caribbean island’s leader continues his week-long visit to China after arriving in Beijing on Monday. Earlier today, he laid a wreath at the Monument to the People’s Heroes in Tiananmen Square, central Beijing. Our reporter Zheng Chunying has more.
ZHENG CHUNYING Beijing “The Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Browne Laid wreath at the Monument to the People’s Heroes in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Wednesday.
“The monument was established to hornor those who paid the ultimate price for national independence and freedom.
“He is also going to hold talks and meet with several Chinese top officials, and he is also going to attend a signing ceremony of cooperation documents.
“He emphasized that to promote trade and economic ties is one of the main priorities of his trip and he calls for more people-to-people exchanges and intensify coordination.
“Antigua and Barbuda’s trade volume reached US$162 million, a year-on-year increase of 72.9 percent. In particular, China’s imports from Antigua and Barbuda increased by more than four times, which fully reflects the vigorous vitality of economic and trade cooperation between the two sides.
“The prime minister also said that China-Antigua and barbuda ties serves as a great example of collaboration between small countries and large countries.
“Noting this year marks the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties, he said that Antigua and Barbuda hopes its friendship with China last forever and expressed willingness to strengthen practical cooperation with China in fields including infrastructure, economy and trade, agriculture, environmental protection, and water resources, and that it firmly adheres to the one-China principle, a solid cornerstone of bilateral relations that will never change, ZCY, CGTN, BJ.”
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Antigua and Barbuda’s trade volume reached US$162 million, a year-on-year increase of 72.9 percent. In particular, China’s imports from Antigua and Barbuda increased by more than four times, which fully reflects the vigorous vitality of economic and trade cooperation between the two sides.
I am not a fan off any political party of Antigua and Barbuda, however, this move the ABLP take is a great strategic move.
Lots of countries are lining up to join the BRICS Nations, where all countries are treated with mutual respect, BRICS central bank is an alternative to the IMF, now developing nations have other options.
BRICS central bank? Please refresh our collective memories about when this institution came into being. Or are you referring to the Chinese central bank?
As far as mutual respect by the Bricks, I’m pretty sure that Ukraine, Pakistan and Tibet would disagree with disagree with your assertion.
https://www.ndb.int/ Next time DYOR, Ukraine is a lost cause, they should have signed the agreement with Russia instead of listening to the West to go to war with Russia.
They have lost over 500.000 young men in the war, and millions fled Ukraine, stop listening to mainstream media, and go behind the scene to get the truth
While Taiwan and Hong Kong are trying stay far away from China.Antigua is going very deeper into bed with the new MASSA.China is going to be the new rulers.They offer loans at good rates.There are reasons behind that.If you failed to repay said loans.They would come into Antigua and take control of those assets.Our Seaport,Airport and other areas of interests would be controlled by China.In that picture above a want to be Dictator shaking hands with a real Dictator.
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