China will sign a strategic alliance with the Community of South American and Caribbean States (Celac) next month. It is an important trade and investment cooperation amounting US$35 billion. One of the programs is a railway across the South American continent. According to Yang Zigang Suriname will also profit from these agreements which will be concluded at the first China-Celac Forum in China next month. “There is no official date, but I think it will be mid-January,” says Yang to Times of Suriname. It has been decided to hold the China-Celac meeting at ministerial level…[+]