President Biden has a tough task ahead of him when he convenes African leaders on Tuesday for the second-ever U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit: to woo them away from China.
But Beijing may be ahead in the soft power arena, too. In September, African countries constituted almost half of the 28 states that supported a Chinese resolution to reject allegations ofChina-Africa relations are “the bedrock of China’s foreign policy,” the Chinese ambassador to the U.S., Qin Gang, sOne difficulty for Biden: He’ll have to convince African leaders to choose the U.S. over China … without mentioning China.
African leaders don’t want their countries to become “a playground for world powers using the continent for their Cold War initiatives against each other,” said Zeenat Adam, former director of the Horn of Africa section of South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation. Perhaps to that end, summit organizers insist the event has nothing to do with Beijing. The meeting is “not about other countries and their engagement” with Africa, a senior administration official said on the condition of anonymity in a press briefing on Thursday., who serves on the Africa subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The summit will show that the U.S. “offers a better, more sustainable economic model that treats our partners more fairly than Beijing treats theirs,” Van Hollen said. That model’s strength is its contrast with “China’s coercive brand of
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