China has endeavored to work with Africa to formulate and implement a unique partnership program on digital innovation. The program, according to China’s Assistant Foreign Minister Deng Li, will see Beijing explore broader cooperation with Africa in new business forms such as digital economy, smart city, and 5G at the Extraordinary China-Africa Summit on Solidarity Against COVID-19 last year. Under this new plan, Deng indicated that President Xi Jinping’s administration is keen on strengthening the digital infrastructure in the continent in order to ‘unclog’ the information artery of economic and social development. “China will share its digital technologies with Africa...