Article: Eritrea participating at the Forum on China-Africa cooperation: Eritrean Pres Isaias Afwerki arrived in China together with Eritrean FM Osman Saleh to participate at the FOCOA China-Africa forum, which will take place from Wednesday to Friday.
Upon arrival in Beijing, President Afwerki was warmly welcomed by Chinese officials. The topic of the China-Africa Forum is enhancing the bilateral ties between China and Africa.
Ideally for Eritrea would be if Afwerki signs agreements with China in the fields of energy, logistics, and infrastructure. For example, China has started to produce midrange and long-range airplanes such as the Comac C-919. This could be a good option to revive Eritrean airlines.
China is an important trade partner to Eritrea as China owns a lot of mining operations in Eritrea and cooperates with Eritrea in the field of energy and technology.
But any bilateral agreement should be made transparent. There are no plausible reasons why the Eritrean government keeps details about Eritrea’s diplomatic and trade relations secret. Eritreans still don’t know the outcomes of Eritrea’s participations at the South Korea-Africa summit, the Russia-Africa summit, the Italy-Africa summit, and the Saudi-Africa summit.