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African Countries Should Stop Being Questioned About Their Diplomatic Engagements
No nation should have to defend its right to choose its own diplomatic partners. Yet, in recent years, African countries have increasingly been called to account whenever those partners happen to be China or Russia. When President William Ruto of Kenya ...
Ruto’s “New World Order” Comment Triggers U.S. Senator
US Senator and the chairperson of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jim Risch, lashed out at Kenya’s President William Ruto for comments made during his trip to China in April. In a speech at Peking University, Ruto said much of the ...
China’s Imports of Iranian Oil Rise as U.S. Eyes Sanctions
China bought an average of 1.05 million barrels of Iranian oil per day for the first ten months of the year, as Iran’s output keeps growing. The data from the shipping tracker Vortexa shows that Chinese imports are the highest since 2018, when the U.S. imposed sanctions against Iran. ...