Botswana Warned To Be Pragmatic With Foreign Policy

Ndaba Gaolathe. PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG
Ndaba Gaolathe. PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG

Botswana has been warned to be ‘very nice’ and establish an exquisite and pragmatic foreign policy in the midst of the trade war between China and the United States of America.

Presidential candidates Ndaba Gaolathe of the Alliance for Progressives (AP) and Biggie Butale of Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) highlighted this during the Presidential debate on Friday at Westwood International School.

The two were responding to a question asked by moderator, Donald Seberane, who had wanted to know the two’s presidential aspirants’ position on what Botswana can do to avoid finding itself in the messy side of the trade war.

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