Economic cooperation: in Marrakech, Beijing unfolds its vision of the world

In a rare exercise of transparency lasting nearly two hours at Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech, Li Changlin, China's ambassador to Morocco, delivered the main lines of Chinese diplomacy before an attentive audience. Scientific cooperation, trade deficit, investments, Sahara, BRICS expansion, American sanctions... no subject was avoided in an intervention that speaks volumes about how the Middle Kingdom intends to structure its relationship with the Kingdom.
Under the vault of the packed amphitheatre of the Semlalia Faculty of Sciences in Marrakech, the Chinese ambassador, Li Changlin, engaged in a rare exercise of transparency on the major orientations of his country's diplomacy.
Challenged from the outset by teachers, researchers, and students on Sino-American tensions, the diplomat did not mince his words: "We are not afraid of provocations. We will go to the end to defend the legi…