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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Washington, November 8 (Xinhua) — US officials will not attend the Group of Twenty (G20) summit in South Africa, scheduled for late November, US President Donald Trump announced on Friday on the social media platform TruthSocial.
He once again asserted that Afrikaners (descendants of European colonists) in South Africa are being "killed and their lands and farms illegally confiscated." The South African government has repeatedly denied such accusations from the White House.
"I look forward to hosting the G20 in Miami, Florida, in 2026!" Trump added. The president had previously announced that he would not attend the G20 meeting in South Africa.
Tensions between Washington and Pretoria arose shortly after Trump returned to the presidency in late January. In February, he signed an executive order freezing American aid to South Africa, claiming that South Africa's recent Expropriation Act, which allows for the seizure of aid in the public interest with compensation, discriminated against the country's white population.
Pretoria officials rejected the White House's accusations, noting that the aid freeze order "lacks factual accuracy and fails to acknowledge South Africa's deep and painful history of colonialism and apartheid."
In February, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on social media that he was boycotting the G20 summit in Johannesburg due to "bad things" in South Africa and criticized the event for focusing on "solidarity, equality, and sustainable development."
In March, Washington expelled then-South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasul, further straining bilateral relations.
In May, during a meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House, Trump began discussing the conspiracy theory of "white genocide" in South Africa. Ramaphosa, who arrived in Washington to improve trade terms and ease tensions in bilateral relations, strongly rejected such claims, noting that the majority of crime victims in his country are black. –0–
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