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Diplomatic initiatives such as these are prudent and timely steps by the Biden administration. If Washington is careful to treat African countries with mutual respect and not as potential venues for proxy competition against Russia and China in a new "cold war," the new US Africa strategy will be doing a great service to the rules-based global order.
Blinken's talk of peace and a renewed US Africa strategy can't hide the fact that the US is really only concerned with its geopolitical interests, whether in the DRC, Rwanda, South Africa, or elsewhere. Blinken's Africa trip also shows that a growing number of countries are no longer willing to go along with the West's double standards on a "rules-based global order."
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