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HARARE – Zimbabwe and China on Sunday touted their “time-tested” and “strategic” friendship as they sought to deflect growing criticism of China’s environmentally unfriendly mining practices across the country. In its latest display of vaccine diplomacy, China donated 500,000 doses of Sinopharm on Sunday – and its top diplomat in Harare used the occasion to launch an attack on western countries for “paying lip service” to Covid-19 vaccine equity. Chinese miners have been accused of displacing communities in Mutoko and Uzumba, as well as destroying wildlife sanctuaries in Hwange and Mavhuradonha – many Zimbabweans believe a price President Emmerson Mnangagwa...