Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen steps into a superpower trade and political battleground over Africa with Russia and China, as her tour of the continent takes her to South Africa on Tuesday.
"Secretary Yellen’s trip will be professionally welcomed, if not especially warmly," Bhaso Ndzendze, head of department and associate professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Johannesburg, told FOX Business. He cautioned that the ties between South Africa and the three superpowers are complicated: ‘Pretoria’s relationship with Russia is political and quite ambivalent, whereas with China it is close but mainly economic.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen delivers a speech on Goree Island, Senegal, on Saturday Jan. 21, 2023. Touching down for this African business safari, first in Senegal last Friday before a one-day stopover in Zambia, Yellen went straight for the moral high ground, trying to differentiate the U.S. position on Africa from that of China and Russia.
But will Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov’s official visit make bigger – and warmer – waves in South Africa? "Minister Lavrov’s trip will be politicized as well, given the ongoing war in Ukraine," Ndzendze advised, "but opposition parties won’t have an impact on the cordial reception that Lavrov will receive.’Adding a word of caution he said, "Some may call for him to be arrested under international legal principles for the war in Ukraine and his government’s role in it.
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