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WEEK IN REVIEW: China-IMF Debt Standoff | France’s “New” Africa Strategy | SA Naval Exercises

by Eric Olander

The G20 finance ministers meeting in India came and went without any progress on the debt standoff between China and the IMF/World Bank over who should take losses on loans to the world’s poorest countries.

Meantime, France announced another “new” strategy to revive its Africa strategy, partially in response to China’s growing influence on the continent.

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