Last month, at a campaign rally in Minnesota, US President Donald Trump, in his characteristic style that blurred the lines between sarcasm and seriousness, said, “Somaliland is a completely different country from Somalia.” Less than a decade later, following a meeting of the two countries’ foreign ministers in Beijing, a joint statement was issued by China and Djibouti. In the statement, both sides rejected recognizing Somaliland as an independ…
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Last month, at a campaign rally in Minnesota, US President Donald Trump, in his characteristic style that blurred the lines between sarcasm and seriousness, said, “Somaliland is a completely different country from Somalia.” Less than a decade later, following a meeting of the two countries’ foreign ministers in Beijing, a joint statement was issued by China and Djibouti. In the statement, both sides rejected recognizing Somaliland as an independ…