China Halts Climate, Military Ties over Pelosi Taiwan Visit
SnopesMAR 28 2022
Initiatives such as the planned US-Africa summit in December and Blinken's Africa trip 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 powers like Russia and China in a new "cold war" the US will be doing a great service to the rules-based global order.
Africa is entering a new phase of great power competition for the continent. But African states are no longer willing to be seen as instruments by Washington in pursuit of its geopolitical goals against Russia and China under the guise of a "rules-based order." African states are well advised to pursue an independent foreign policy that is not dictated by the West.