China announced plans to assist Namibia in developing its natural resources. This support aims to shift the country from merely exporting raw materials to producing higher-value, domestically processed minerals and uranium.

China is backing Namibia’s bid to move beyond raw material exports by supporting the domestic processing of critical minerals and uranium. In a joint communique issued on Friday following bilateral talks in Beijing between Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his counterpart Selma Ashipala-Musavyi, China pledged to help transform Namibia’s natural resources into higher-value products through domestic processing and downstream cooperation. Namibia, which has exported unprocessed minerals for decades, is....