So it turns out that China’s main trading partner in Africa, accounting for more than 20 per cent of Beijing’s trade with the continent, is South Africa. Fancy that!
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) — South Africa’s embassy in New Delhi has denied travel documents to Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, barring him from attending a peace conference in Johannesburg, activists said Sunday.
The Dalai Lama had planned to join other Nobel peace prize winners including Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk at a conference Friday to discuss ways of using soccer to fight racism and xenophobia, as South Africa prepares to host the 2010 World Cup. more
It speaks volumes that one man carrying no gun can make such a very large country as China so very afraid.
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