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Rwanda’s Ambassador is Solidly in China’s Corner

by Eric Olander
James Kimonyo, Rwanda's ambassador to China. Image via Global Times.

There’s often a huge discrepancy between the complex discourse about China that takes place in most African countries and the unabashedly enthusiastic embrace of China and the Communist Party that’s expressed by a number of African ambassadors in Beijing.

Few are as effusive as Rwandan ambassador James Kimonyo who made it clear in a recent interview with the nationalist tabloid Global Times that any criticisms of China’s activities in Africa “have no basis whatsoever” and any suggestions of a backlash are “ridiculous.”

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