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

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.