JABULANI SIKHAKHANE: SA and US need to find common ground amid clash of values
Learning to manage the image gap
26 March 2025 - 05:00
The fallout with the US raises questions about SA’s approach and practice of diplomacy, specifically it’s ability to read the political mood and temperature of a country which, as things stand, is important to us.
These questions apply to American politics — the return to office of US President Donald Trump and what it meant for SA’s relationship with the US. This is so especially when overlain with SA’s decision to take Israel (an important US ally) to the International Court of Justice. ..
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