{"id":156568,"date":"2026-08-25T21:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156568"},"modified":"2026-08-25T21:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:30:06","slug":"africa-knows-who-its-true-friends-are-and-theyre-not-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156568","title":{"rendered":"Africa knows who its true friends are \u2013 and they\u2019re not in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe gaffe at last month\u2019s Aids 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro, where a US State Department presentation displayed a map of Africa with every country mislabelled, serves as more than a source of embarrassment. It was a potent symbol of the distance between Washington\u2019s rhetoric and its real stance regarding the African continent.<br \/>\nEarlier this year, Nick Checker, a senior US State Department official, spoke of \u201cresetting\u201d US relations with Africa, pivoting away from dependency and towards&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3364970\/africa-knows-who-its-true-friends-are-and-theyre-not-washington?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe gaffe at last month\u2019s Aids 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro, where a US State Department presentation displayed a map of Africa with&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156568"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}