{"id":233136,"date":"2026-05-13T16:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-china-backs-namibias-nuclear-power-ambitions\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:26:18","slug":"namibia-china-backs-namibias-nuclear-power-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-china-backs-namibias-nuclear-power-ambitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: China Backs Namibia&#8217;s Nuclear Power Ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">China has expressed readiness to support Namibia&#8217;s efforts to grow its energy sector, including potential collaboration on nuclear power development if Namibia chooses to construct a nuclear plant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Speaking at a media briefing in Windhoek, Chinese ambassador Zhao Weiping said Namibia has every right to develop nuclear energy, as it is one of the world&#8217;s largest uranium producers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">&#8220;I personally think it is a good idea for Namibia to develop its own nuclear power projects,&#8221; Zhao said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605130524.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has expressed readiness to support Namibia&#8217;s efforts to grow its energy sector, including potential collaboration on nuclear power development if Namibia chooses to construct a nuclear plant. Speaking at a media briefing in Windhoek, Chinese ambassador Zhao Weiping said Namibia has every right to develop nuclear energy, as it is one of the world&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":233137,"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":[723],"tags":[258,256,19589,7102,434,4706,724,9052,257,5141,7047,254],"class_list":["post-233136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ambitions","tag-backs","tag-china","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibias","tag-news","tag-nuclear","tag-power","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/233136","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=233136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}