PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says his government has managed to deepen its bilateral relations with China despite past claims by detractors that he doesn’t know how to relate with that country. During the Technology Forum on Mining in Luanshya, Tuesday, President Hichilema said government had also managed to convince Glencore to write down the Mopani debt from $1.7 billion to $500 million. “Today, we are here at this wonderful platform, it’s like we have been walking 10 years, it is two years, nine months, to get Mopani back on the rails. We had to negotiate the transaction to reduce the debt, the inability of Zambia on Mopani alone, on one creditor only called Glencore from a total of $1.1 billion plus...