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A trip to Beijing by Zimbabwe’s military chief was a “normal military exchange”, China’s foreign ministry said after the army seized power in Harare. How deep are relations between China and Zimbabwe really?
By Sij Ncube HARARE – FORMER cabinet minister Fay Chung has poked holes into President Robert Mugabe’s Look East Policy, saying solutions to Zimbabwe’s political and socio-economic problems squarely lie in “internal drivers” and not Chinese donations. Chung, who served as minister of Education, Sports and Culture in the 1980s, Wednesday night officially, launched her […]
In Zimbabwe, Mugabe’s ‘Look East’ policy was the signal for an increase in China’s involvement in Zimbabwe. What was in it for China? For a country desperately short of natural resources, the answer was plain: Zimbabwe is rich in minerals.