Trump’s South Africa Bashing Plays Into China’s Hands
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Chinese President Xi Jinping, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg on Aug. 23, 2023.
Photographer: Alet Pretorius/AFP/Getty Images
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It seems fair to say that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was blindsided by his US counterpart’s response to a land-expropriation law.