Hours before Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the new U.S. strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa, China’s nationalist tabloid newspaper began publishing stories that attacked the U.S. for “attempting to bring the continent back to the Cold War” and for “ruining Africa’s development prospects.”
The task to discredit the new U.S. strategy fell to Professor Song Wei from the School of International Relations and Diplomacy, a longtime China-Africa observer whose analysis has, over time, integrated more polarized views from the Xi administration.
