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South Africa Turns to China; Seeks Alternative to Trump, Musk
Breitbart ^

Posted on 06/05/2025 8:08:06 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe

South Africa is attempting to court China in the wake of the Oval Office meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump last month, in which South African President Cyril Ramaphosa argued with Trump over “genocide.”

The meeting produced theatrics and commentary, but little in the way of economic progress between the two countries.

Ramaphosa arrived at the meeting determined to correct what he had called Trump’s “misinformation” about the country, but without any concrete proposals for resolving tensions and trade disputes that had emerged.

South Africa’s communications ministry, which is run by the opposition, later issued a draft policy that proposed setting aside racial ownership requirements to allow Elon Musk’s Starlink to invest in the country, but the dominant African National Congress (ANC) balked, and is now openly seeking Chinese alternatives.

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TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: africa; chicoms; china; redchina; southafrica
Not surprised at all. They're going to find China will want to collect one day.
1 posted on 06/05/2025 8:08:06 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: Tench_Coxe

China is welcome to them.


2 posted on 06/05/2025 8:11:54 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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3 posted on 06/05/2025 8:13:14 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Red China already owns most of Africa’s politicians. They’ll gladly spend a few billion to own South Africa’s.


4 posted on 06/05/2025 8:13:59 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: Tench_Coxe

China doesn’t have woke Karens, and they don’t suffer from America’s racial political correctness mental illness.

Anyone who knows anything about South Africa has a low opinion of it.

They will extract their pound of flesh for anything they provide.


5 posted on 06/05/2025 8:16:06 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Tench_Coxe

Another African nation about to be plundered economically and controlled by China, and the worldwide leftist media will continue to ignore and downplay it.


6 posted on 06/05/2025 8:24:47 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Tench_Coxe

Those clever South African tribesmen are slipping.

They should ally with North Korea as China is practically a democracy.


7 posted on 06/05/2025 8:37:00 AM PDT by ABStrauss (I miss Rulsh!!!!!)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Make something besides disease, famine, machetes, misery, and sorrow, do something with yourselves and the dirt you stand on besides make your leaders rich. That goes for South Africa, too.....;)


8 posted on 06/05/2025 9:07:21 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Dogs are with us briefly. Politicians last on forever. Listen to your dog. )
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I wonder how the CCP treats black people?


9 posted on 06/05/2025 9:41:31 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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They continue on their path of idiocy.


10 posted on 06/05/2025 2:49:40 PM PDT by vpintheak (Screw the ChiComms! America first!)
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