Team AtlanticThis link provides a list of countries provided by...

Team Atlantic
This link provides a list of countries provided by the UK government rather than the one I provided previous which is for Ghana.

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/overseas-business-risk#a

The following graphic shows what comes up when you select a country



LambSauce
Google indicated that there are 195 countries in the world. I counted 123 on the UK government list on the link above.
Mali, Democratic Republic of Congo, Russia, China and North Korea and many others are not on the list.

Check out this map also as an independent source of information.
https://freedomhouse.org/explore-the-map?type=fiw&year=2023

I'm generally a long term investor and for these investments I do not invest in companies that are partly Chinese owned or are tied up entirely and are reliant on China for purchase of their product.

I thought of investing in Leo as a short term as I said to control risk to a short term exposure.

AVZ are in bed with Chinese as are Leo. That was enough for me. Then I looked at the geopolitical risk and decided even more strongly that it didn't suit my risk profile.

I wasn't ramping, or having a go or making random comments. I discussed Chinese risk in my original post. I never said the risks were identical. Mali is a democracy and DRC is not. I tried to be objective and provided links to back up most of my comments.

I always told my kids "No one knows everything. Take advice from everyone and thank them for it. Go away and decipher and process that advice and if it withstands your scrutiny and is of benefit to you then adopt it."

I believe you are reading too much into my comments.

I hope your investment in Leo works out for you and you make a motza. As we all know risk and reward go hand in hand. I'm happy with my decision and I as you are with yours. No drama big llama.