South Africa has given the OK for China and Russia to conduct naval exercises off its coast, sparking concerns of further alienating the country from the west.
Operation Mosi – which means “smoke” – is scheduled to take place between February 17 and February 26 of next month, Bloomberg reported.
FILE: Destroyer Jinan from Chinese navy front and cruiser Varyag from Russian navy sail in formation after a joint naval exercise, Joint Sea 2022, in the East China Sea on December 27, 2022.
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Kobus Marais, shadow defense minister for the opposition party, Democratic Alliance, has questioned the motivations for going through with the plan, calling it “another bad judgement, an embarrassment.”
He said the arrangement will give the impression that South Africa is not only “neutral but being biased to one side.”
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