{"id":208517,"date":"2025-09-29T19:11:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-ad1054-zambians-support-open-trade-greater-african-voice-in-international-affairs\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T19:11:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:11:02","slug":"zambia-ad1054-zambians-support-open-trade-greater-african-voice-in-international-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-ad1054-zambians-support-open-trade-greater-african-voice-in-international-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Ad1054 &#8211; Zambians Support Open Trade, Greater African Voice in International Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Perceptions of China&#8217;s influence as substantial and positive have declined significantly over the past decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>By margins of at least 6 to 1, Zambians are satisfied with the way that SADC and the AU recognise Zambia&#8217;s needs and interests in their decision making. But fully half of citizens decline to offer an assessment. o A majority (61%) of respondents say African countries should have a greater say in international decision-making bodies such as the United Nations.<\/li>\n<li>About six in 10&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509290398.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perceptions of China&#8217;s influence as substantial and positive have declined significantly over the past decade. Key findings By margins of at least 6 to 1, Zambians are satisfied with the way that SADC and the AU recognise Zambia&#8217;s needs and interests in their decision making. But fully half of citizens decline to offer an assessment. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":208518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[52449,6117,258,256,4380,9486,4337,257,5983,254,6096,5979,10858,4709,881,9005],"class_list":["post-208517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-ad1054","tag-affairs","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-greater","tag-international","tag-news","tag-open","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support","tag-trade","tag-voice","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambians"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/208517","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=208517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}