China New Trade Deals 2025 With Africa and Central Asia: Quiet Revolution Shaping Global Economics

China new trade deals, serve as bridges connecting China with Africa and Central Asia. It’s part of a quiet economic revolution taking shapes globally.

WartaBerita.Net | NEW YORK – While headlines fixate on conflict zones, a seismic shift is underway—as China new trade deals sweeping across Africa and Central Asia, reshaping global power silently but profoundly.

Africa and China New Trade Deals: Zero Tariffs, Real Growth

On June 12, 2025, at the Ministerial Meeting in Changsha, China formally extended zero‑tariff access to exports from all 53 African countries with diplomatic ties, lifting barriers for both least‑developed and middle‑income nations.

This marks a dramatic shift, as no other rising power has secured continent‑wide economic commitments at this scale. An added pledge of RMB 50 billion (~USD 7 billion) in concessional financing supports least-developed nations.

Based on information from Reuters, China‑Africa trade hit USD 134 billion in just the first five months of 2025, up 12.4% from last year.

At the same time, the Fourth China‑Africa Economic and Trade Expo (June 12–15) in Changsha brought thousands of entrepreneurs together. The event is showcasing textiles, tech, minerals, and signed joint agreements, infrastructure projects, and more.

Central Asia–China: Treaty of Deepening Ties

Days later, on June 17, 2025, there were also another China new trade deals. This time with countries from Central Asia. President Xi Jinping finalised a “Treaty on Permanent Good-Neighbourliness” with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan during the summit in Astana.

Several key outcomes of China new trade deals with Central Asia countries include:

• 58 strategic agreements worth nearly USD 25 billion in agriculture, green hydrogen, railways, and industry
• New financing grants of RMB 1.5 billion (~USD 209 million)
• Acceleration of the ambitious China–Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan railway, with construction proposed to begin July 2025
• Expanded cooperation in trade, energy, infrastructure, visa facilitation and direct flights

One Strategy, Two Worlds

These China new trade deal agreements underline a stark contrast between the two world, China and U.S.. On one side, the U.S. doubles down on military muscle and protectionist tariffs. While at the same time, China is weaving economic infrastructure, trade access, and mutual development—all while steering clear of ideological debates.

As Reuters reported on June 11, 2025, China and African representatives urged the U.S. to shift from punitive tariffs to diplomacy—and followed by rejecting protectionist barriers.

Why It Matters

Africa’s opportunity: never before have African exporters accessed the world’s second-largest economy tariff-free while gaining infrastructure and manufacturing support.

Central Asia’s pivot: the region, once largely in Russia’s sphere, now aligns itself as a logistics hub for China–Europe trade, bolstered by rail and energy projects.

Global shift: China’s strategic bet is clear—control wealth creation, not weapons. As Professor Lu Feng warns, “industrial power has never lost when challenged by a financial empire” in the past 500 years.

For billions across these regions, today’s quiet diplomacy may define tomorrow’s prosperity—with China building roads, rail, and real-world partnerships while the West deploys missiles.

China’s model—quiet bridges, not walls—is crafting a new geopolitical reality. And yes, it’s happening right now. [WB]