{"id":2403117,"date":"2025-02-16T06:21:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T11:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-taiwan-feud-runs-deep-in-south-african-politics\/"},"modified":"2025-02-16T06:22:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T11:22:56","slug":"china-taiwan-feud-runs-deep-in-south-african-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-taiwan-feud-runs-deep-in-south-african-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"China-Taiwan feud runs deep in South African politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fchina-taiwan-feud-runs-deep-in-south-african-politics%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=2403117&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--><p>The article discusses the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-cargo-ship-detained-by-france-in-the-english-channel\/\" title=\"Russian Cargo Ship Detained by France in the English Channel\">deteriorating relations<\/a> between\u200d South Africa and\u200d the United States,primarily influenced by South africa&#8217;s\u200b stance on Taiwan amid increasing tensions between China and\u200d Taiwan. The South African government has \u2063warned Taiwan&#8217;s diplomatic mission in\u2064 Pretoria to leave,which aligns with China&#8217;s desires. This move received approval from China, emphasizing its preference for a &#8220;one-China&#8221; \u2062policy. In response, U.S. officials, including former President Trump and Senator Marco rubio, have criticized \u2062South \u200dAfrica&#8217;s policies, especially those aimed at land expropriation and race-based legislation, which they view as counterproductive to collaboration. They argue that South Africa&#8217;s actions threaten U.S. interests and support for\u200d Taiwan. The article highlights various U.S. lawmakers&#8217; calls for accountability\u200b regarding south Africa&#8217;s treatment of Taiwanese diplomats and its ties to China, interpreting these developments as increasing Chinese influence \u200bin the region. Despite U.S. sanctions and pressure, South African president\u2064 Cyril Ramaphosa remains defiant, accusing the U.S.of \u2063bullying.\u2064 Taiwan continues to assert its right to operate diplomatically in South africa, despite the impending deadline imposed by the South African government.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">China-Taiwan feud runs deep in South African politics<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1973107\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Relations between the United States and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">South Africa<\/a> are at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3312961\/south-africa-not-bullied-ramaphosa-warns-trump-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">low point<\/a> as the country&rsquo;s domestic and foreign policies run counter to the interests of the White House.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>President Donald Trump and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/marco-rubio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Secretary of State Marco Rubio<\/a> have pointed to land expropriation laws and race-based policymaking as a stumbling block to bilateral cooperation, but a proxy battle between China and Taiwan is beginning to involve U.S. lawmakers as well.<\/p>\n<p>The South African government began routinely warning its nation&rsquo;s Taipei Liaison Office last year that its diplomatic mission must leave the capital city of Pretoria by the end of March &mdash; the latest warning letter was filed in January.<\/p>\n<p>The government is also seeking to downgrade the TLO from a diplomatic mission to a mere trade office.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">China&rsquo;s President Xi Jinping, right, and South Africa&rsquo;s President Cyril Ramaphosa, left, talk during the G20 Summit leaders meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo\/Eraldo Peres)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>China applauded the eviction notice when it was first revealed in October, with Chinese Communist Party spokeswoman Mao Ning telling reporters that it was the &ldquo;correct decision.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We appreciate South Africa&rsquo;s correct decision to relocate the Taipei liaison office in South Africa out of its administrative capital, Pretoria,&rdquo; said Mao. &ldquo;Taiwan independence is unpopular and doomed to failure.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>South Africa remains one of the CCP&rsquo;s top allies on the continent. It is a member state of the BRICS trade bloc and a participant in the Belt-and-Road Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>In January, the CCP placed sanctions on Ivan Meyer, leader of the second-largest political party in South Africa, after he visited Taiwan, asserting that he broke the &ldquo;one-China principle.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>These developments were eclipsed when Trump turned his ire on South Africa earlier this month over other policies his administration viewed as undesirable.<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3314868\/trump-executive-order-sanction-south-africa-treatment-afrikaners-offers-refuge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">signed an executive order on Feb. 7<\/a> sanctioning South Africa for its Expropriation Act 13 of 2024, a law allowing the government to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/landowners-criticize-texas-senators-for-not-stepping-in-as-biden-seized-their-land\/\" title=\"Landowners Criticize Texas Senators For Not Stepping In As Biden Seized Their Land\">seize private land<\/a> without compensating the owner. <\/p>\n<p>South African President Cyril Ramaphosa assented to the law on Jan. 23. The policy is widely seen as directly targeting the white Afrikaner minority, which owns disproportionate tracts of farmland even decades after the abolishment of apartheid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Trump<\/a> wrote that it is just one of &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bloomberg-admits-trump-is-right-about-south-africa-land-grab\/\" title=\"Bloomberg Admits ... Is Right About ... Land Grab\">countless government policies designed<\/a> to dismantle equal opportunity in employment, education, and business, and hateful rhetoric and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">government actions fueling disproportionate violence<\/a> against racially disfavored landowners.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. lawmakers who see South Africa as a developing hotbed of Chinese influence on the continent seized the moment and threw their support behind the White House&rsquo;s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch (R-ID) voiced support for Trump and Rubio&rsquo;s hardnose attitude toward South Africa, specifically noting the Taiwan matter.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I support [Rubio]&rsquo;s decision not to attend the G-20. South Africa is a stooge for U.S. adversaries China and Russia, and it continues to bully Taiwan,&rdquo; said Risch. &ldquo;This is unacceptable, and it&rsquo;s time to put maximum pressure on the ANC-led government.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on Africa, said he intends to investigate South Africa&rsquo;s treatment of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/taiwan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Taiwanese diplomats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The South African government seems to be going out of their way to alienate the United States and our allies,&rdquo; Cruz wrote on Feb. 4. &ldquo;Their timeline to expel our Taiwanese allies from Pretoria is deeply troubling, undermines the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressional-war-vets-warn-biden-against-shuttering-gitmo\/\" title=\"Congressional War Vets Warn Biden Against Shuttering Gitmo\">national security interests<\/a> of America and our allies, and will deepen tensions between the U.S. and South Africa.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>More recently, Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) filed a letter to Trump this week calling the South African government an &ldquo;ethnonationalist gangster regime&rdquo; and urging the president to &ldquo;hold South Africa responsible for its egregious human rights abuses, unfounded vendetta against the State of Israel, and its embrace of the Chinese Communist Party.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan continues to advocate its freedom to operate in Pretoria, but the deadline for its removal from the capital city is fast approaching.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;MOFA reiterates that the Taiwan government remains steadfast in its refusal to accept the South African government&rsquo;s unilateral violation of their bilateral agreement and that it will continue communicating with South Africa on the principles of parity and dignity,&rdquo; the TLO said in its official statement regarding the order. <\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa is remaining defiant in the face of U.S. sanctions, accusing the superpower of attempting to bully his government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1973107\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1973107\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China-Taiwan tensions impact South African politics and U.S. relations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3468,"featured_media":2403118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AP24323560206904.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4501,32402,5894,45252,9105],"class_list":["post-2403117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-china","tag-international-relations","tag-politics","tag-south-africa","tag-taiwan"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AP24323560206904.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403117","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\/3468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2403117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403121,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403117\/revisions\/2403121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2403118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2403117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2403117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2403117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}