Trump’s ‘trade tsunami’ unsettles geopolitics
Visiting Beijing at the height of US President Donald Trump's “Liberation Day” trade war rhetoric in April, Kenyan President William Ruto described a “broken global order”. He declared Kenya would work with China to build a “fair, inclusive and sustainable world order”.
At the time it looked like a particularly brazen example of a developing nation that traded heavily on its ties with the US, and had become the only declared “major non-Nato ally” of Washington on the African continent in 2024 largely as a result of its declared support for Ukraine.
Kenya faces a review in the US Senate of whether it deserves to retain the position given its ties with Iran and China in particular.
With Kenyan newspapers reporting an imminent trade deal with Beijing with zero apparent trade barriers, as Trump imposes 10% tariffs...
