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Browsing: Sino-Africa
China’s influence in Africa has reached historical proportions and the US, coming rather late into the game, is now attempting to ‘change Chinese narrative’ on the continent.
The US is looking to move Africa from training or rather petting the dragon to slaying it, metaphorically speaking.
The new US-Africa policy that was launched in 2018, is designed for this purpose. As a top US diplomat put it, the policy “…will continue to counter China’s influence in Africa in order to slay the dragon.”
The US would have Africa and the World at large know, the continent is now getting “the attention it deserves from senior US officials.”
With the new policy, that is meant to guide bilateral relations with Africa, the US is trying to improve its public diplomacy outreach.
As China continues to assert itself on the continent with ever more development pacts, the US is now trying to …
