{"id":179357,"date":"2024-08-27T15:54:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T13:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-welcomes-chinese-new-ambassador\/"},"modified":"2024-08-27T15:54:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T13:54:11","slug":"lesotho-welcomes-chinese-new-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-welcomes-chinese-new-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Welcomes Chinese New Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><em>&#8230;discloses that China-Africa trade has reached historic USD$282 billion<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">THE prestigious Avani Maseru Hotel was a hub of elegance and excitement on Tuesday evening as dignitaries gathered in their finest attire to welcome the newly appointed Ambassador of the People&#8217;s Republic of China to the Kingdom of Lesotho, Yang Xiaokum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The grand reception was a testament to the deepening ties between China and Africa, marked by a historic peak in trade between the two regions, which reached a staggering&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408270452.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;discloses that China-Africa trade has reached historic USD$282 billion THE prestigious Avani Maseru Hotel was a hub of elegance and excitement on Tuesday evening as dignitaries gathered in their finest attire to welcome the newly appointed Ambassador of the People&#8217;s Republic of China to the Kingdom of Lesotho, Yang Xiaokum. The grand reception was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":179358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,6269,435,4717,1407,257,254,6132],"class_list":["post-179357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ambassador","tag-chinese","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-welcomes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}