Ambassador Wu Peng, the People’s Republic of China’s envoy to South Africa. Wu, a veteran diplomat and former director-general of China’s Department of African Affairs in the Foreign Ministry, has reaffirmed Beijing’s support for South Africa’s G20 presidency. Image: Jonisayi Maromo/ IOL
Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to South Africa, Wu Peng, has reiterated Beijing’s support for the G20 Summit to be held in South Africa later this month. The veteran Chinese diplomat, who is also the former director-general of China’s Department of African Affairs in the Foreign Ministry, was speaking at the opening ceremony of the Global South Media Think Tank High-Level Forum and China-Africa Partnership Conference, currently under way in Johannesburg, where he hailed the “remarkable rise of the Global South” as one of the defining features of the modern era. The event was attended by key panelists, including the Executive Chairman of Independent Media and co-chair of the BRICS Medi
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