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LONDON, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Visiting Beijing at the height of U.S. President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day” trade war rhetoric this April, Kenyan President William Ruto described a “broken ... global order". He declared that Kenya would work with China to build a "fair, inclusive and sustainable ... world order".
Even at the time, it looked like a particularly brazen example of a developing nation that traded heavily on its ties with the U.S., 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