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We're not shifting loyalty to China, MP assures US

President William Ruto with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. [PCS]

The National Assembly Defence and Foreign Relations Committee has moved to assure the US that Kenya is not switching allegiance to China, clarifying that Nairobi only sought a more significant say on the world stage.

In a letter to Jim Risch, a US Senator from Idaho who chairs the Foreign Relations Committee, Nelson Koech, the committee chair, said President William Ruto’s reference to China as “co-architects of a new world order” was taken out of context.

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