{"id":216871,"date":"2025-12-16T22:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/southern-africa-botswana-and-china-relations-flourish\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:11:09","slug":"southern-africa-botswana-and-china-relations-flourish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/southern-africa-botswana-and-china-relations-flourish\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Botswana and China Relations Flourish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Gaborone \u2014 Since the establishment of Botswana and China diplomatic relations in 1975, the two have expanded cooperation in agriculture, health care, education, infrastructure, digital construction and other fields with the total trade volume between the two countries increasing by 15.7 percent with an optimised trade structure in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Of significance, is the fact that diplomatic relations between China and Botswana have grown significantly in recent years, with Botswana becoming the 46th&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512160531.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaborone \u2014 Since the establishment of Botswana and China diplomatic relations in 1975, the two have expanded cooperation in agriculture, health care, education, infrastructure, digital construction and other fields with the total trade volume between the two countries increasing by 15.7 percent with an optimised trade structure in 2023. Of significance, is the fact that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":216872,"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":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,434,24006,257,6434,254,7153],"class_list":["post-216871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-china","tag-flourish","tag-news","tag-relations","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern"],"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\/216871","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=216871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}