Top U.S., Chinese and Russian officials tour Africa as diplomatic charm offensive gathers pace
Yellen met with South African officials including President Cyril Ramaphosa last week, just days after the country's Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor stood alongside Lavrov and vowed to strengthen bilateral relations between Pretoria and Moscow.
Yellen's three-country African tour, which also included stops in Senegal and Zambia, was presented as an effort to build trade and investment ties with the continent, accompanied by discussions about sustainable energy and food security initiatives and debt relief. with Russia and China next month, coinciding with the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine, which drew concern from the White House.
The Biden administration's U.S. sub-Saharan Africa strategy was published in August 2022, and frames China's view of Africa as However, he highlighted that most African leaders remember with concern the U.S.-Soviet proxy wars conducted on the continent during the Cold War, and are therefore reluctant to become part of a global power struggle. As such, many African nations desire a strong relationship with both the U.S. and China, and U.S. diplomacy will be more effective when not framed as an "us-or-them" proposition.
Eleonora Tafuro, senior research fellow at the Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia Centre at Italy's Institute for International Political Studies , told CNBC last week that there was an increasing realization among Western powers that African nations have "their own agency" and it is up to them to decide whether relationships with China, Russia or Turkey, for instance, are in their interests.
"It characterizes its loans as mutually beneficial cooperation between developing countries, promising not to interfere in the internal politics of those it loans to," Vines said. "Meanwhile, other African countries have created realistic, manageable debt arrangements with China without the tremendous risk and uncertainties that characterized some major BRI projects," he highlighted.
"China is an emerging superpower in strategic competition with the U.S. Building stronger economic relationships in Africa would be a logical step in its aspirations to be a global power."In a Q&A session in London on Friday, former Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama noted the resistance among African nations to be drawn into the conflict by Western powers.
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