{"id":265423,"date":"2024-12-14T11:07:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T11:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/14\/ghana-has-always-upheld-the-one-china-policy-john-mahama\/"},"modified":"2024-12-14T11:07:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T11:07:30","slug":"ghana-has-always-upheld-the-one-china-policy-john-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/14\/ghana-has-always-upheld-the-one-china-policy-john-mahama\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana has always upheld the one-China policy \u2013 John Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/286\/28609562.295.jpg\" alt=\"2024 President-Elect, John Mahama\" title=\"2024 President-Elect, John Mahama\" width=\"295\" height=\"196\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>2024 President-Elect, John Mahama<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p id=\"article-123\">President-elect John Dramani Mahama says Ghana has always upheld the one-China policy.<\/p>\n<p>The President-elect said this when Tong Defa, the Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, paid a courtesy call on him in Accra to formally congratulate him on his victory in the December 7 polls. <\/p>\n<p>The One China principle is the position held by the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC) and the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that there is only one sovereign state under the name China, with the PRC serving as the sole legitimate government of that China, and Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. <\/p>\n<p>President-elect Mahama told Defa to inform Chinese President Xi Jinping that Ghana\u2019s new incoming administration would continue to believe in the one-China policy and on all the foreign relations issues that they had worked on. <\/p>\n<p>President-elect Mahama said his administration had a spirit of consultation and that they would continue to consult so that they could have a common position going forward on global issues. <\/p>\n<p>He reiterated that China\u2019s relationship with Ghana was historical because Ghana was the first of Saharan African countries to establish diplomatic relations with China, which dates to the period of Ghana\u2019s first president, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. <\/p>\n<p>He noted that afterwards, there were coup d\u2019etats and there was a slight dip in terms of their relationship, saying, \u201cBut in the last decades, we\u2019ve had very wonderful cooperation with China.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we hope to continue to keep that up. I met with President Xi when he was Vice President; I was also Vice President. And he invited me twice to China when he was Vice President. And then again, we met in South Africa during the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), and that was before I left office.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>President-elect Mahama said since then, the Government of Ghana has continued that relationship. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know the cooperation with Sino-Hydro on the various projects that were being implemented across the country. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the debt default has affected Ghana\u2019s credit rating in terms of economy,\u201d he said  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so, we\u2019re looking to focus and bring Ghana back up in terms of economic growth, in terms of stabilizing the currency, in terms of bringing down inflation.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>President-elect Mahama underscored that this was the time Ghana needs to work even closer with its partners, including China. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so as early as possible, once we get the transition out of the way, it is our hope that we\u2019ll be able to constitute a delegation to begin engaging with China on the issues of our technical cooperation and how Ghana can continue to benefit from the FOCAC disbursement and also from the Belt and Road Initiative,\u201d the President-elect said  <\/p>\n<p>On his part, Tong Defa, the Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, congratulated President-elect Mahama on his victory in the December 7 polls. <\/p>\n<p>He further noted that China looks forward to strengthening its relationship with Ghana.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 President-Elect, John Mahama President-elect John Dramani Mahama says Ghana has always upheld the one-China policy. The President-elect said this when Tong Defa, the Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, paid a courtesy call on him in Accra to formally congratulate him on his victory in the December 7 polls. The One China principle is the position [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ghana has always upheld the one-China policy \u2013 John Mahama - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/14\/ghana-has-always-upheld-the-one-china-policy-john-mahama\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ghana has always upheld the one-China policy \u2013 John Mahama - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"2024 President-Elect, John Mahama President-elect John Dramani Mahama says Ghana has always upheld the one-China policy. 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