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Botswana and China announce comprehensive strategic partnership

Botswana's President Duma Boko and China's President Xi Jinping agreed in Beijing on October 13 to elevate relations to a comprehensive strategic cooperative…

Duma Boko with Marco Rubio in March 2025 — archival photograph, not the China meeting.
Duma Boko with Marco Rubio in March 2025 — archival photograph, not the China meeting.

Botswana's President Duma Boko and China's President Xi Jinping agreed in Beijing on October 13 to elevate relations to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, according to China's foreign ministry.

The leaders witnessed cooperation documents covering green mining, health, human resources and the Belt and Road initiative. Discussions also addressed agriculture, digital development and education, with China advocating more industrial value addition to African resources. The published account did not provide a combined financial value for the documents.

Duma Boko with Marco Rubio in March 2025 — archival photograph, not the China meeting.

Source: www.fmprc.gov.cn.

Photo credit: U.S. Department of State.

Image on Wikimedia Commons — Public domain. Resized and converted to WebP.

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