LETTER: West needs to take China as it is, not for what it prefers China to be
If the Brics enterprise dies, SA loses a powerful platform as a leading nation in Africa and a champion of the South
You wrote that a complication with China’s rising clout is that Pretoria may be forced to take sides, to the detriment of its relationship with the other big economic players (“Tensions cloud China’s clout”, July 21 (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/editorials/2020-07-21-editorial-tensions-cloud-chinas-clout/)). You point out that so far, SA has managed to stay on the sidelines as relations between China and the English-speaking West fall to new lows.
A concern you highlighted was that SA — and its China-invested companies, such as Naspers — have been lucky so far not to get caught up as the elephants fight, and perhaps we can remain out of trouble before current heightened tensions subside after the US elections later in 2020...
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