{"id":26361,"date":"2024-09-06T03:59:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T22:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26361"},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:20:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T08:50:03","slug":"forum-on-china-africa-cooperation-focac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/forum-on-china-africa-cooperation-focac\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Forum on China-Africa Cooperation:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was established in 2000 to formalise the strategic partnership between China and African nations.<\/li>\n<li>A summit is conducted <strong>every three years<\/strong>, with the host <strong>alternating <\/strong>between <strong>China and an African member.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Member countries:<\/strong> The FOCAC counts 53 African nations as its members \u2013 the entire continent except Eswatini, which has diplomatic ties with Taiwan against Beijing\u2019s \u201cOne China\u201d Policy.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The African Union Commission, the continental bloc tasked with ensuring cooperation and economic integration across its member countries, is also a member.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>theme this year<\/strong> is \u201cJoining Hands to Advance Modernization and Build a High-Level China-Africa Community with a Shared Future.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The current summit is expected to address <strong>state governance, industrialisation, agricultural upgradation<\/strong>, and improved cooperation over China\u2019s infrastructure financing via the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bri\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Belt and Road Initiative<\/strong> (BRI)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is China\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative?<\/h3>\n<p>It is also known as One Belt, One Road which envisages the construction of a maze of road, rail and port projects through a number of countries.It aims to strengthen Beijing\u2019s economic leadership through a vast program of infrastructure building throughout China\u2019s neighbouring regions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-global\/focac-china-africa-9551476\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Explained: Significance of the China-hosted FOCAC summit, with 53 African countries in attendance<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forum on China-Africa Cooperation was established in 2000 to formalise the strategic partnership between China and African nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}