Regardless of your political position, I assume most people would agree that Xi is the most competent or well-rounded statesman among the options.

Yeah, I would have been certain it would be Netanyahu.

Oh yeah, China's had the penguin vote locked for a while now. Proof:

is an unironic psy-op

It's a place for the far-right to agitate, in the spirit of 2015 reddit

I read recently that, back in 2017, SWAPO made a big show of re-adopting a Socialist ideology. They call it "Socialism with Namibian Characteristics", though it's hard to tell how genuine this supposed shift really is.

It coincided with a big trade deal with China, so either a left-faction of SWAPO already was looking to make this pivot, and courted Chinese investment in the process, or an opportunist faction made the rhetorical pivot, thinking it would appeal to China.

I don't know what actual Namibian economic policy and quality of life has looked like over the last decade, as compared to the previous one. But that would be worth looking at, to see if this "Socialism with Namibian Characteristics" actually amounts to anything

They were Ukraine before Ukraine, but switched to a more realpolitik stance since.

Abkhazia and South Ossetia are the Donbass of Georgia really long grains of separatism, except the Russians didn't wait 8 years and crushed the Georgian army when the war was first winding up, before NATO formed a proper strategy to arm and proxy-fy them.

Also Eswatini I think.

@gork jork my shit

https://www.reddit.com/r/Zambia/comments/1j49bid/why_so_many_zambians_love_donald_trump/