China’s role in Cabo Verde’s historic World Cup draw with Spain

On Monday, thousands of Cabo Verdeans poured out onto the streets of their capital, Praia, to celebrate the national football team’s shock draw against Spain at the World Cup, beating drums, blowing horns and dancing.For Cabo Verde, an archipelago country of 500,000 people located off the coast of West Africa, a stalemate with former World Cup champions is as good as a win. President Jose Maria Neves described it as a defining moment for the country, which became independent from Portugal in 1975.“If today, 50 years later, we are at the World Cup, we have already proven that we are a viable nation,” he wrote on Facebook, following the match in the US city of Atlanta.