Day: October 24, 2019
Tweet of the Day: Without China and Russia in Africa, the U.S. Would Likely Lose Interest
Onye Nkuzi is a Nigeria-based analyst who has more than 114,000 followers on Twitter and regularly comments on U.S.-China-Africa issues. You can follow him on Twitter ...
With No Evidence, Some US & EU Media Frame Russia Summit as Move to Challenge Chinese Influence in Africa
Agence France Presse and Newsweek were among the Western news outlets who have framed the Russia-Africa Summit story as a bid to somehow "confront" or "challenge" China's massive influence in Africa. What's interesting, though, is that none of that rhetoric is coming from the Russians themselves. Quite ...
The Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi Sounded an Awful Lot Like a China-Africa Summit
China's emergence as a major global power over the past quarter-century has not been accompanied by the rise of a Sinocentric worldview. Unlike the U.S. or Europeans in previous eras, where countries in those regions were able to position themselves at the apex of global power for ...