#PRC: Eurasia and Africa watch the US retreat. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
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🗓️ 14 December 2022
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#PRC: Eurasia and Africa watch the US retreat. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
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| 0:57.0 | At this point, try a very carefully reordering its ambitions given that it's in league with |
| 1:04.2 | Moscow, but it has its own future. It must look for energy security and food security. |
| 1:11.1 | But Africa is watching as well. And the US Africa Leaders Summit underway in Washington, |
| 1:16.1 | in G.C. is a good place to measure. Gregory, we've spoken at length of your observations |
| 1:21.2 | about Ethiopia. You mentioned Ethiopia is disappointed to say the least. In the US State Department |
| 1:28.9 | seeming to support its opponent, the TPLF now defeated and not endorse the uniting of |
| 1:35.8 | all of Ethiopia. You also mentioned to me in the past Nigeria, which is about to go through |
| 1:41.7 | a momentous election for a new president. And most recently, you mentioned S.W.A.T.E.S. |
| 1:48.5 | of South Africa's complex. These three states, do they see this changing of the garden |
| 1:55.0 | Eurasia differently or in the same fashion? They've got to look out for themselves and |
| 1:59.5 | the old order is gone. Absolutely. And all of the key states now recognize that the US is |
| 2:07.4 | doing less and less to help them and can do less and less to help them. And the PIA is |
| 2:14.1 | the only game in town in many respects. And the Beijing's link through Saudi Arabia actually |
| 2:23.0 | then builds that bridge down to Africa and so on. So what we could see, for example, emerging |
| 2:31.6 | is Beijing acting as the arbiter between Ethiopia and Egypt in helping to resolve the Nile |
| 2:42.0 | waters dispute over the Grand Ethiopia, in Renaissance Dam and the like. We could see a lot |
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