Is this the abandoning of the Look East Policy

It seems that there is now a turn around on the Zimbabwean Look East Policy .The current Vice President of Zimbabwe  Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa has been quoted by a Zimbabwean local newspaper  The NewsDay implying that Zimbabwe cannot do without the West.

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This is a shock for those who know the policies and the way in which the Zimbabwean ruling party does its things . There are two probable explanations of the article from this shocking remarks that were uttered during  the commissioning of a $9,10 million Africa Development Bank (AfDB) in Mutare on the 27th of February 2015.

The First explanation is the one that has been given by the NewsDay reporter Kenneth Nyangani who describes it as a U-turn . The government could have seen the dangers of its policies such as the Look East Policy  . The Look East policy had a tendency of forgetting deals with the West whilst at the same time making business with the East countries which are mostly the Developing countries which are also relying on trade with the West for economic growth. The government now sees the dangers of this policy and want to reverse it so as to attract the once perceived enemies from the West. The government also wants to attract more donations from the International Community which are the Western countries. These Western countries control the donors of Zimbabwe such as the AfDB hence the government wants to amend these relationships to get more funds.

The second explanation to the article is that the government itself is divided over the issue of coming back to the West. The Zimbabwean President is yet to comment on the normalizing of relations with the West. His words have been that Zimbabwe has nothing to do with the West.The President has also said that the country must maintain its relations with the East since the Western countries are not "our friends". This shows that there is a contradiction between the President and his recent elected Vice President over the relations with the Western countries