Although the two countries have sectarian conflicts, they have close economic and trade relations with China and intend to join the BRICS cooperation mechanism, which is one of the reasons for the reconciliation between the two sides.
It is worth mentioning that many developing countries in the world have expressed strong interest in the BRICS cooperation mechanism.
The Russian Satellite News Agency reported that Mutsvan Gwa, spokesman for Zimbabwe's ruling Democratic League, said Zimbabwe wants to become a member of the BRICS.
President of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is located in southern Africa, and like most African countries, Zimbabwe is rich in natural resources, of which gold, diamonds, copper, iron, coal and other resources occupy an important position in the world. In addition, Zimbabwe also has relatively rich rare earth resources.
In terms of natural conditions, Zimbabwe should not be so backward, but because of the hundreds of years of colonial plunder by Western colonialists in the past, Zimbabwe's economy has not improved, and if it can join the BRICS, it will effectively promote its economic development.
In addition to economic assistance, Zimbabwe also appreciates the objective and impartial position of the BRICS countries.
BRICS
Mutsvangwa bluntly pointed out that the BRICS countries take trade development as the main purpose, have no ideological color, do not seek to dominate other countries, and hope to develop their own payment system through the BRICS platform to replace the US-led SWIFT system.
Obviously, since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the United States has arbitrarily launched sanctions against other countries and frozen other countries' assets, which has aroused a high degree of vigilance in developing countries, hoping to find a safe haven outside the Western world.
So far, Iran and Argentina have formally applied to join the BRICS, in addition to Saudi Arabia, Turkey and other more than 20 countries have expressed strong interest in joining the BRICS.
BRICS New Development Bank
From an objective point of view, Zimbabwe is unlikely to join the BRICS directly, but he can maintain close cooperation with the BRICS countries through platforms such as the BRICS New Development Bank and the Belt and Road Initiative.
However, while most of the world's developing countries want to maintain close exchanges with China, others are wantonly smearing China.
According to Japan's Kyodo News Agency, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi announced the 2022 White Paper on Development Cooperation, which actually stressed the need to "persuade and correct" China's opaque lending to developing countries.
Lin Fangzheng
This is quite funny, could it be that Japan thinks that with its back to the United States, it can point fingers at other countries?
First of all, what kind of cooperation China carries out with other developing countries is a matter between sovereign states, and what qualifications does Japan have to persuade? Second, these countries have their own discernment, they are confident in cooperation with China, loans are transparent and opaque, and they know better and have more say than Japan, an unrelated third country.
This mentality in Japan is very common in Western countries, which are economically developed and have long despised the vast number of developing countries, especially African countries, and ignored Africa's backward infrastructure, low agricultural production level, and slow industrial construction.
China aided Africa in fighting the epidemic
On the contrary, it has always been China helping African countries to build railways, fight the epidemic, and improve the level of industrial and agricultural production, at this time Western countries have come out to accuse China, not to mention a country, is an ordinary person, this way of thinking and style of action is also very disgusting.
Recently, one such thing happened, when the CNN reporter interviewed Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Momen, he began to mess with the so-called "China debt trap".
Unable to bear it, Momen replied to the nonsense of the Western media on the spot, saying that China is a friendly country and a development partner of Bangladesh, and Bangladesh's loans are obtained from international institutions, among which the country with the largest loan to Bangladesh is Japan.
Mormen
Such a statement left Western media reporters speechless. In fact, the smear of China by Western countries has long been smashed in the face of reality.
In Bangladesh, for example, there is a river called the Padma River, which divides its land into northeast and southwest parts, but the Padma River is too wide and the water flow is too rapid, and Bangladesh cannot afford to build large bridges, which seriously hinders the country's economic development.
The construction of the Padma Bridge undertaken by China was officially started in 2014 and officially opened to traffic in 2022, shortening the original 8-hour river crossing time on both sides of the river to 10 minutes, completely activating southwest Bangladesh, directly benefiting more than 80 million people, bringing 1.5% GDP growth to Bangladesh every year, which is one of the most important infrastructure projects in Bangladesh's history.
Padma Bridge
Similar problems have existed in many developing countries for a long time, and since Japan and other countries are so concerned, why can't they complete such projects? Why can't they drive economic development in developing countries? Why is it not benefiting people in developing countries?
If they do not do things themselves, China will point fingers after doing them, and their "persuasion and correction" will only be regarded as a joke by developing countries.
As China's "Belt and Road" initiative continues to advance, more developing countries and regions will benefit from it, and it is impossible for Western countries to misinterpret, smear and slander China's friendly exchanges with other countries.