Earl M. Bousquet is President of St. Lucia-China Friendship Association (SLCFA), columnist of The Voice of St. Lucia, St. Lucia's largest and oldest newspaper and commentator of DBS TV Evening News. He can be reached at embousquet@hotmail.com
Apart from all else, the 2018 "Two Sessions" will also offer the world continued assurances that China can always be counted on as a reliable partner for global peace and development.
Two summits have been held and a third should be the next logical step. Given the pace of progress thus far, the two neighbors can and must both be encouraged and assisted to make it happen.
The theory and practice of China’s targeted poverty reduction approach shows that with policy support and appropriate measures, it is possible to eradicate poverty.
Latin American and Caribbean states seek to deepen strategic cooperation with China to jointly construct new global relations and foster common interests through the Belt and Road Initiative.
It is the extent to which nations are prepared to reflect in practice what they agree to at world conferences that will decide how fast or slow the needed actions will follow and flow.
Peace in the Middle East and a two-state solution for Palestine may still be far off, but thanks to Trump’s polarizing announcement on Jerusalem the Palestinians ended 2017 and start 2018 with stronger global support for their cause.
A new future must be shaped across Southern Africa if the changes that successful liberation struggles heralded decades ago are to be realized under new leadership.