China’s President Xi Jinping (C) speaks as South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa (L) and Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (R) look on, during the Forum On China-Africa Cooperation – Round Table Conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on September 4, 2018. (Photo by Lintao Zhang / POOL / AFP) (Photo credit should read LINTAO ZHANG/AFP via Getty Images)