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China’s Ambassador to South Africa: Pompeo Stuck in the Cold War With an “Outdated, Zero-Sum Mentality”

by Eric Olander

China’s outspoken ambassador to South Africa, Lin Songtian, held a press conference this week that was broadcast live on South African TV from the embassy in Pretoria. The media briefing was presumably intended to provide updates on China’s efforts to contain the COVD-19 outbreak at home and what the embassy is doing to prevent the contagious virus from spreading to South Africa. 

But there was clearly another agenda.

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