{"id":37278,"date":"2026-07-27T08:48:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T05:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=37278"},"modified":"2026-07-27T08:48:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T05:48:48","slug":"chinas-zero-tariff-play-aims-to-lock-in-african-loyalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=37278","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s zero-tariff play aims to lock in African loyalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/China-Africa-Trade.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>China\u2019s expanding zero-tariff access for 63 lower-income countries \u2014 53 of them African \u2014 is far more than a developmental courtesy or a technical adjustment of customs schedules. It is a deliberate geostrategic lever in Beijing\u2019s long-term competition with the United States and Europe for influence over the Global South. It also reflects a growing [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/2026\/07\/chinas-zero-tariff-play-aims-to-lock-in-african-loyalty\/\">China\u2019s zero-tariff play aims to lock in African loyalty<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/\">Asia Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s expanding zero-tariff access for 63 lower-income countries \u2014 53 of them African \u2014 is far more than a developmental courtesy or a technical adjustment of customs schedules. It is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-without-rubric"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}