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Will Egypt and China become BFFs?
As Morsi recalibrates Egypt's foreign policy -- seeking "balance," his advisers have said, and reaching out to US foes -- he is attempting to relieve Egypt's crippled economy, which has failed to rebound from its post-uprising slump.

China is now in a unique position to usurp the United States in the role of Egypt's benefactor.

"Our relations with China will increase, because our new government has some doubts about the West," said Mohamed Kadry Said, military analyst at the Cairo-based Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies.
Posted by: lord garth 2012-09-10
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