Tshisekedi expected to reach new deal with China in Beijing

As one of the preparations for Congo (Kinshasa) President Tshisekedi's visit to China, Congo (Kinshasa) Mining Minister Antoinette Nsamba Kalambayi has been working since May 19 Stayed in Beijing all the time.

After the Minister of Mines arrived in China, he spoke with the head of the Chinese company who had just started doing business about misunderstandings about some terms and other issues that could damage the relationship between the two parties.

China-Congo Joint Cooperation Committee Meeting

Before Tshisekedi’s arrival in China, Congolese (Kinshasa) Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Deputy Director of the President’s Cabinet in charge of Economic and Financial Issues, Minister of Digital and Minister of Mining and other officials, as an advance team, had already arrived in China A meeting of the China-Congo Joint Cooperation Committee was held in Beijing.

Tshisekedi expected to reach new deal with China in Beijing

Under the framework of re-examining the Sino-Congo contract signed between the Congolese (Kinshasa) government and a group of Chinese companies in 2008, Tshisekedi will go to Beijing to hold a meeting with the Chinese government on May 24. This is also Tshisekedi's first visit to China since he became president in January 2019.

Tshisekedi wants to rebalance some of the contracts signed with China, especially against the resource-for-resources contract signed by former President Joseph Kabila 15 years ago.

According to sources familiar with the matter, Tshisekedi's visit will provide new vitality to the strengthening of economic and political cooperation between the two countries. A senior Congo (Kinshasa) official and a member of the contract review strategy committee explained that there will be no issue of turning their backs on China, and this trip is a sincere hope of the two countries to strengthen cooperation on a new basis.

—Excerpt from Congo News