Instead, he found his niche in the Non-aligned Movement, joining India’s Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Yugoslavia’s Josip Broz Tito at the helm of this grouping of developing countries which were inspired by anti-colonialism and the rejection of the ideological and political divisions of the Cold War. Nasser, like India, also obtained his military equipment, denied to him by Western powers, from the Eastern bloc. This action, coupled with Egypt’s diplomatic ties with China in May 1956, further alienated the US; in July 1956, President Dwight Eisenhower announced that the US was
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