“As Sino-Moroccan economic cooperation has deepened, the Moroccan expert debate has increasingly turned to the potential of greater political convergence between Beijing and Rabat on the Western Sahara issue. As a result, Moroccan media coverage of Bourita’s visit to Beijing moved beyond discussions of Morocco’s growing strategic importance for Chinese economic expansion in Africa, focusing instead on the possibility that China might eventually follow much of the Western world in recognizing Moroccan sovereignty over the Western Sahara.”
Imane Ezzehouany is author of the issue of the ChinaMed Observer “From geoeconomics to a Chinese diplomatic shift on the Western Sahara? Moroccan press coverage of FM Bourita’s visit to Beijing”.
