Despite the many changes in Africa during 2011,Sino-African ties remain optimistic for 2012 by Ni Yanshuo FOR the African continent,2011 was a year of change,protest and and uncertainties.The unrests in North Africa led to regime changes in the three North African countries of Tunis,Egypt and Libya;a new country,the Republic of South Sudan,became independent and got its seat in the United Nations;a total of 17 countries held presidential elections,and a grave famine devastated the Horn of Africa. "It is true that what happened in Africa may influence Sino-African relations to some extent,but the chaos and uncertainty cannot fundamentally change the bilateral relations," said Zhang Zhongxiang,Deputy Director of African Studies Center of Shanghai Normal University."You can see in the past year that both sides are taking
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