China’s engagement with Africa represents an opportunity for the West as well as a threat
globalised lives. Those who travel to work on Chinese-built roads may do so in Japanese minibuses emblazoned with images of players from European football leagues, pinging messages on American social-media platforms. They worry about rising prices, a global pandemic gumming up supply chains and a Russian dictator’s decision to invade Ukraine.
Western countries instinctively see such views as warnings: ominous signs that they are losing a global battle for influence. There are certainly areas where it makes sense to think of China’s role on the continent as part of a broader struggle for power in the 21st century.
Wisely, under Joe Biden, America has abandoned the Trump administration’s rigid approach of telling countries they must make a binary choice between America and China. The administration’s infrastructure programme, Build Back Better World , is seen as a response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative. It was followed more recently by the’s Global Gateway infrastructure-for-Africa plan.
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