South Africa: Ramaphosa ‘assures Chinese Communist Party on SA’s China policy’

The Chinese Communist Party says that President Cyril Ramaphosa has assured it that the Government of National Unity (GNU) will not change South Africa’s China policy, including on the highly sensitive issue of Beijing’s claim to Taiwan.

Liu Jianchao, minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), met Ramaphosa last week on a visit to South Africa at the head of a delegation of senior CPC officials who also met ANC…