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African diplomats first to trial Beijing's new course on Xi's diplomatic thought

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A portrait of China's President Xi Jinping on display at an exhibition on the history of the Chinese Communist Party at Peking University, on 7 October 2022.
A portrait of China's President Xi Jinping on display at an exhibition on the history of the Chinese Communist Party at Peking University, on 7 October 2022. © Jade Gao/AFP

Two universities in the Chinese capital have recently begun trialling a course focused on Xi Jinping's views on diplomacy. A first cohort of civil servants, from Africa, was welcomed in the second quarter of 2026. The scheme will be extended to other parts of the Global South, organised into homogeneous regional groups.

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