Chinese President Xi Jinping and Mozambican President Daniel Chapo held talks in Beijing on Tuesday, agreeing to elevate their relationship to a "community with a shared future" — a framework China uses to describe its closest diplomatic partnerships. The two leaders signed more than 20 cooperation agreements covering infrastructure, energy and minerals, agriculture, digital economy, and health care, while Beijing announced it would extend zero-tariff treatment on all tariff lines to Mozambique and 52 other African nations with diplomatic ties to China starting 1 May. The meeting signals Mozambique's growing alignment with China's broader engagement strategy across Africa, anchored in the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), as both sides seek to deepen economic complementarity and coordinate on multilateral issues within the United Nations.