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UN Summit: China puts flesh on bones of ambitious aid promises

by Our Foreign Desk

CHINESE President Xi Jinping pledged billions in aid at the weekend and said that Beijing will forgive debts due this year in an effort to help the world’s poorest nations.

He was the first world leader to put flesh on the bones of good intentions agreed at Friday’s UN global summit on Friday to help poor countries achieve sweeping new development goals.

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