News Snapshot:
China and Russia have set out to bring their growing defense ties to Africa, in which both powers have increasingly invested their economic, political and military capital. China, Russia and South Africa announced last week their intention to hold 10-day trilateral naval exercises off the southern coast of Africa next month, a plan that has raised concerns among critics of Moscow's ongoing war in Ukraine. Following talks with his South African counterpart in Pretoria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov defended the drills as a natural development in which "three sovereign countries, without violating any norms of international law, conduct exercises."...
