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Cameroon signed a new agreement with Russia for Military cooperationThey have ongoing military agreements.
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SA holding the cardsXI is reportedly going to make his first overseas visit in 2 years to SA. Recently Biden asked SA to increase oil production and they said no.US is energy independent (biggest oil producer) and China is the biggest energy consumer (currently buys 1/4 of SA's oil exports). SA is the biggest crude oil exporter.US published documents on Yemen or something and linked SA royal house to Kashogi killing. China has it's think in Xinjiang.SA and US have an old relationship. China has leverage over Iran, something US may never have.How much weapons will China provide for SA?Reportedly China is talking about using Yuan instead of USD to buy oil. SA made a deal with Nixon to trade oil only for USD in return for security guarantees.
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Reportedly, UAE and SA have declined to answer phonecalls from Biden... although they have both spoken to Putin, reportedly.Wion said the reason was a 'trust deficit.' And noted the affair with the killing of the journalist Kashogi.
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FIFA banned Russia from participating in World CupFIFA refused to suspend teams located in Israeli settlements in Israeli occupied lands, which violate FIFA's own rules (teams can't play in the territory of another country), according to Ali Abunimah.
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Russia-Ukraine peace talks on 5th day of warIn Belarus, on the Ukraine-Belarus border. Delegations from each country which don't include the two leaders.
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Some people say China is winning over US in LatAmThe countries are simply taking the best deal offered them, even if it's something like Huawei, which the US tried to get Brazil not to deal with because of Huawei's alleged spying. China is reacting to the local need, some sayChina's BioTech vaccine was the first vaccine available to Brazil. Some say LatAm countries are not happy with the way Washington handled the pandemic.
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'When a member of [US] Congress goes to Taiwan and declares that she is now in the Republic of Taiwan, that's terribly provocative"... and who ends up getting hurt in that situation? It's the people of Taiwan. If there is ever a military conflict there, even if it's turned back, thousands of people in Taiwan will die. And members of Congress ought to be aware of that simple truth. - Joseph Fewsmith
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US won't send officials (diplomats) to Beijing Olympics... because, it says, of China's genocide (Uighurs not Tibetans), crimes against humanity, and other human rights abuses.Support came from both sides of the Congressional isle.US Athletes are still going.In 1980, US officials AND athletes weren't allowed to go to the Moscow Summer Games, due to, the US said, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Russia refused to come to the Summer Games in the US in 1984.