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Two of the U.S.' top generals who oversee commands for American forces in Africa and the Middle East issued new warnings on Tuesday about the risks to U.S. interests posed by both China and Russia. Marine Corps General Kenneth McKenzie Jr., ...
Equatorial Guinea’s New Cooperation Agreement with China Could be Sending a Message
Equatorial Guinea and China signed an agreement on Tuesday to promote development cooperation between the two countries. Usually, this kind of announcement doesn't draw much attention. But this one is sure to raise eyebrows in Washington because of ongoing rumors that China is planning to ...
Equatorial Guinea’s Top Officials Have Been Very Busy Lately Hosting U.S. and Chinese Delegations
It's been a very busy week for great power diplomacy in the Equatoguinean capital of Malabo. On Saturday, Foreign Minister Simeón Oyono Esono Angue hosted a delegation led by Chinese ambassador Qi Mei to discuss unspecified "international events." That mean ...
Washington’s Top Diplomat for Africa Presumably Asked the Equatorial Guineans to Put the Kibosh on a Future Chinese Military Base
U.S. government officials regularly criticize China for embracing African dictators in pursuit of Beijing's strategic interests, so it was a tad ironic to see photos and videos late last week of a high-level American delegation led by Washington's top diplomat Molly Phee so warmly received in an ...
The Optics of the High-Level U.S. Delegation Visit to Equatorial Guinea Are Bad, Really Really Bad
When U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Molly Phee met with Equatorial Guinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo last week at the Presidential Palace in Malabo to try and put a stop to the building of a Chinese military base in the West African country, she ...
How ‘Small State Opportunism’ Shapes China’s Pursuit of Overseas Military Bases
By Chris Alden and Lukas Fiala, China Foresight, LSE IDEAS When Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh publicly confirmed China’s intentions of building a military base near the Doraleh port in 2015, Beijing’s move was met with deep suspicion across ...
WSJ: U.S. to Tell Equatorial Guinea if It Wants Anti-Piracy Support Then They Must Cancel Plans For a Chinese Base
A high-level U.S. delegation led by Washington's top diplomat for Africa, Molly Phee, and senior AFRICOM commander, Major General Kenneth Ekman, will head to Equatorial Guinea this week to try and make a deal with President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo about a purported plan that China wants to ...
Head of U.S. Forces in Africa Repeats Unsubstantiated Claim that China Is Planning an Atlantic Military Base
The commander for U.S. forces in Africa (AFRICOM), General Stephen J. Townsend reiterated his assertion that China is looking to build a second military base in Africa, this time somewhere along the Atlantic coast. In a wide-ranging ...
Chinese Propaganda Still Fuming Over Pentagon Claim that Beijing Wants to Build an Atlantic Military Base in Africa
It's been exactly a month since the Wall Street Journal published the Pentagon's latest claim (albeit not a new assertion) that China plans to build a new military outpost on Africa's Atlantic coast in Equatorial Guinea. Chinese propaganda outlets like Global ...
DOUBLE EPISODE: Andy Mok Reflects on FOCAC Plus a Discussion About Bad China-Africa Journalism
With the end of the year fast approaching and time running out to get everything into the last remaining shows of the season, we're bringing you a special double episode this week. First, join us ...
The ‘China Building a Military Base in Equatorial Guinea’ Narrative is Fast Becoming Normalized… No Evidence Needed
The unsubstantiated claim by the U.S. military that China is considering Equatorial Guinea as the location of its next military base in Africa is widely gaining traction among U.S. and European journalists, scholars, and analysts despite the fact that there is still no evidence to verify the ...
U.S., European News Outlets Fail to Question Pentagon Assertion China Wants to Build Atlantic Base in Africa
The Wall Street Journal's report from December 5th that relayed Pentagon concerns about China's purported ambition to build a navy base on Africa's Atlantic coast in Equatorial Guinea has now spread so far across the media landscape, even to usually discerning publications ...