Foreign Correspondence

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We have a Cold War situation, China will do what is good for China, they want to build their presence in Africa, and Zimbabwe is highly in its interest.
Mugabe's opulent vast magnificient new Palace is soon to be completed.
It has been under construction for two years so this for the people, for the poor, this marxist will have an obscenely expensive 25-bedroom Palace to sleep in.
I now realize he is 81(not 79), so his having built this huge palace is like a Pharaoh building a Great Pyramid to indulge their belief in their own magnificience.
How vile is a man that for two years has been pouring many many millions into a new Palace as the country sinks into a desperate collapse?