Zimbabwe: As Mugabe Fights for His Political Future, Why Is China So Silent?

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As Zimbabwe teeters on the brink of economic and political crisis, there's one voice that has been conspicuously silent: China. Despite the mutual professions of admiration and everlasting friendship, it seems that President Robert Mugabe has been abandoned by his Chinese counterpart in his hour of need.

It wasn't meant to be this way.

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