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Monday, February 17, 2025

China to expand cooperation with Grenada

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34 days ago
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Chinese Premier Li Qiang holds talks with visiting Grenadian Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell in Beijing, capital of China (Photo courtesy (Xinhua/Liu Bin)

Chinese Premier Li Qiang holds talks with visiting Grenadian Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell in Beijing, capital of China (Photo courtesy (Xinhua/Liu Bin)

Chi­na says it is will­ing to align de­vel­op­ment strate­gies with Grena­da, and ex­pand co­op­er­a­tion with the coun­try in such ar­eas as new en­er­gy, the dig­i­tal econ­o­my and the blue econ­o­my to en­hance Chi­na-Grena­da mu­tu­al ben­e­fi­cial co­op­er­a­tion.

Chi­nese Pre­mier Li Qiang made the sug­ges­tions in talks with the vis­it­ing Grena­di­an Prime Min­is­ter Dick­on Mitchell here, ac­cord­ing to the of­fi­cial Xin­hua news agency.

It said Li not­ed that over the past 20 years since the re­sump­tion of diplo­mat­ic re­la­tions be­tween Chi­na and Grena­da, both sides have up­held mu­tu­al re­spect and equal­i­ty, main­tained close high-lev­el ex­changes, and ex­pand­ed prag­mat­ic co­op­er­a­tion, bring­ing tan­gi­ble ben­e­fits to the two peo­ples.

Li said Chi­na will work with Grena­da to con­sol­i­date po­lit­i­cal mu­tu­al trust, pro­vide firm sup­port on is­sues con­cern­ing each oth­er’s core in­ter­ests and ma­jor con­cerns, and con­tin­u­ous­ly ex­pand mu­tu­al­ly ben­e­fi­cial co­op­er­a­tion in var­i­ous fields to el­e­vate bi­lat­er­al re­la­tions to a new lev­el.

The Chi­nese Pre­mier said that his coun­try is al­so will­ing to align de­vel­op­ment strate­gies with Grena­da, adding that based on the joint ef­forts in high-qual­i­ty Belt and Road co­op­er­a­tion, the two sides should deep­en co­op­er­a­tion in tra­di­tion­al sec­tors such as agri­cul­ture, in­fra­struc­ture and health­care, while ex­pand­ing co­op­er­a­tion in emerg­ing fields, in­clud­ing new en­er­gy, the dig­i­tal econ­o­my and the blue econ­o­my.

“Chi­na en­cour­ages qual­i­fied Chi­nese en­ter­pris­es to in­vest and start busi­ness­es in Grena­da,” Li said, adding that Chi­na is ready to as­sist Grena­da and oth­er Caribbean coun­tries in cli­mate adap­ta­tion to pro­mote the full and ef­fec­tive im­ple­men­ta­tion of the Unit­ed Na­tions Frame­work Con­ven­tion on Cli­mate Change and its Paris Agree­ment.

Li said Chi­na will work with Grena­da to joint­ly safe­guard the in­ter­ests of the Glob­al South, pro­mot­ing the build­ing of a com­mu­ni­ty with a shared fu­ture for mankind.

In his ad­dress, Prime Min­is­ter Mitchell com­mend­ed Chi­na’s re­mark­able con­tri­bu­tions in pover­ty al­le­vi­a­tion, which are ex­em­plary par­tic­u­lar­ly for de­vel­op­ing coun­tries.

The of­fi­cial Xin­hua news agency said the vis­it­ing Prime Min­is­ter al­so ex­pressed ap­pre­ci­a­tion for Chi­na’s long-stand­ing sup­port and as­sis­tance in Grena­da’s eco­nom­ic and so­cial de­vel­op­ment and praised Chi­na’s role in lead­ing the de­vel­op­ment of the Glob­al South.

He said Grena­da will con­tin­ue to firm­ly abide by the one-Chi­na prin­ci­ple, adding that the coun­try sup­ports the three ma­jor glob­al ini­tia­tives pro­posed by Chi­na, and will en­hance mul­ti­lat­er­al co­or­di­na­tion and co­op­er­a­tion with Chi­na.

Grena­da sev­ered diplo­mat­ic re­la­tions with Tai­wan, which Bei­jing con­sid­ers to be a rene­gade province. In the Caribbean, Haiti, St Kitts and Nevis, St. Lu­cia and St. Vin­cent and the Grenadines are the on­ly Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) re­la­tions with Taipei.

Both Chi­na and Tai­wan have ac­cused each oth­er for years of us­ing “dol­lar diplo­ma­cy” in their strug­gle for diplo­mat­ic recog­ni­tion.

Fol­low­ing the talks, the two lead­ers wit­nessed the sign­ing of mul­ti­ple bi­lat­er­al co­op­er­a­tion doc­u­ments in ar­eas in­clud­ing joint­ly build­ing the Belt and Road, econ­o­my, trade, green de­vel­op­ment, cul­ture, me­dia and cli­mate change, the of­fi­cial Xin­hua news agency re­port­ed.

BEI­JING, Chi­na, Jan 14, CMC

CMC/ag/ir/2025


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