{"id":1107034,"date":"2021-12-10T18:28:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T23:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1107034"},"modified":"2021-12-10T18:28:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T23:28:57","slug":"diplomacy-is-back-south-africa-boycotts-bidens-democracy-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/diplomacy-is-back-south-africa-boycotts-bidens-democracy-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Diplomacy Is Back&#039;: South Africa Boycotts Biden&#039;s &#039;Democracy Summit&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdiplomacy-is-back-south-africa-boycotts-bidens-democracy-summit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1107034&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cyril-Ramaphosa-and-Joe-Biden-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">South Africa, the most important democratic country on the African continent, is boycotting President Joe Biden\u2019s two-day \u201cdemocracy summit,\u201d after the Biden administration slapped a hasty travel ban on the country due to the omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>Many South Africans are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/africa\/2021\/11\/29\/south-africans-outraged-omicron-coronavirus-variant-tied-to-them\/\">resentful<\/a> of the ban, which came after South African scientists and officials alerted the international &nbsp;community immediately upon discovering the new coronavirus variant, which apparently did not originate in South Africa.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>As foreign affairs journalist Peter Fabricius <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2021-12-10-ramaphosa-gives-us-presidents-democracy-summit-the-cold-shoulder\/\">noted<\/a> in South Africa\u2019s online independent newspaper, the Daily Maverick:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"20\">\n<p>More than 100 leaders of democracies around the world attended US President Joe Biden\u2019s virtual Summit for Democracy this week. But President Cyril Ramaphosa declined an invitation to attend. Why?<\/p>\n<p>Was it because China had dismissed the summit as a \u201ccomplete farce\u201d \u2014 almost certainly because Taiwan was among the countries invited.<\/p>\n<p>Did Pretoria decline to avoid offending its close ally Beijing? And also perhaps Russia, which was not invited?<\/p>\n<p>Or did Ramaphosa diss Biden because he is annoyed at the US \u2014 and other Western countries \u2014 for imposing a ban on South African visitors to stem the spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus?<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa\u2019s harsh criticism of these countries on the West African tour which he completed this week certainly suggests deep anger.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As Breitbart News reported, Ramaphosa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/africa\/2021\/11\/29\/president-of-south-africa-rages-against-travel-bans-over-omicron-variant\/\">raged<\/a> against the travel ban last month, saying the U.S. should help developing countries instead of banning international travel, which will hurt South Africa\u2019s tourism-heavy economy in particular.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.4285714285714\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Instead of prohibiting travel, the rich countries of the world need to support the efforts of developing economies to access and to manufacture enough vaccine doses for their people without delay.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EpfT062cmt\">https:\/\/t.co\/EpfT062cmt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cyril Ramaphosa \ud83c\uddff (@CyrilRamaphosa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CyrilRamaphosa\/status\/1465025419372109829?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In January 2020, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/health\/2021\/11\/29\/fact-check-psaki-tries-to-defend-biden-calling-trumps-travel-ban-hysterical-xenophobia\/\">called<\/a> then-President Donald Trump\u2019s travel ban on China \u201chysterical xenophobia.\u201d Some critics now say the same about Biden\u2019s ban on South Africa and neighboring countries.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden took office earlier this year&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2021\/02\/04\/president-joe-biden-signals-dramatic-shift-u-s-foreign-policy\/4332339001\/\">declaring<\/a> that \u201cdiplomacy is back,\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/02\/04\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-americas-place-in-the-world\/\">promising<\/a>&nbsp;that his administration would begin \u201cworking with our allies and partners, renewing our role in international institutions, and reclaiming our credibility and moral authority, much of which has been lost.\u201d<br \/><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa, the most important democratic country on the African continent, is boycotting President Joe Biden\u2019s two-day \u201cdemocracy summit,\u201d after the Biden administration slapped a hasty travel ban on the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1107034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}