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An Eye-Opening Encounter

‘I am so happy to meet you, my African brother,” “It’s a pleasure to have friends visiting from afar,” “Building an African-Chinese community with a shared future in the new era,” “China will always be Africa’s partner of mutual respect,”…

These are just a handful of expressions I have often heard over the more than six months I have been in China.

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