A couple of weeks ago I was in China, attending a meeting on China-Africa relations and Zimbabwe was not mentioned once. In light of this ‘which suitor?’ dilemma, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta recently said that Africans “don’t want to be forced to choose,” noting that “we must begin to look at Africa as the world’s biggest opportunity, and I believe you can dare to look at it with a fresh eye.” At the end of the day, African nations don’t want to be used as a proxy battleground for the US and China to engage in Cold War 2.0. The report considers that crude export revenues are 10 times higher than the value paid by Chinese imports, so Angola has a positive trade balance. With China’s influence growing over Angola and other former Portuguese African colonies such as Mozambique, the once influential colonial power that once upon a time proudly pioneered the expansion of European empires on the continent seems to have realized the futility of resisting the dragon. The airport was billed by the Angolan government to be a major hub for sub-Saharan Africa, and a rival to South Africa’s O.R. According to Pompeo, the reason he is visiting Senegal, Angola and Ethiopia is because they are “three countries in various stages of development in their transition to democracy and their stability.”. In return for the bribes, Thiam used his position to influence the Guinean government to enter into lucrative mining rights agreements with both Chinese companies, according to the release. There is also the construction of the electrical production plant of Soyo, supported by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and built by China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC). The researcher said in a recent interview with the Brookings Institution that for countries like Angola, Sudan and Ghana, which have been granted Chinese credit in return for natural resources, these guarantees allow for lower interest rates and this is, therefore, a model that “can work, as the Chinese say, in a relationship of mutual gain.”, In Angola, which, according to Bräutigam, has already received funding of over US$30 billion from China, backed by oil, it is possible to “know what happens to Chinese loans, because the Ministry of Finance is actually transparent,” publishing “lists of all these projects on its website”, The researcher, who has researches Chinese loans in Africa, added that this situation contrasts favourably with the relationship, for example, with the United States, which pays directly for all the oil it buys from Angola, so it is not possible to know what happens to the money.”. Reviewing 17 years of investment, the Chinese official in the African country said that in that period China helped build and repair 2,800 kilometers of railways, 20,000 kilometers of roadways, build 100,000 social houses, more than 100 schools and 50 hospitals. The volatile situation in Iraq and Iran’s continuous hostility towards the US further increases Angola’s importance for both China and the US. The US has been hyping up its intentions for Africa all while combating China for well over a year, little has been done by US officials in that time to strengthen the relationship with Africa (even with the announcement of the Prosper Africa strategy). The group invested 230 million U.S. dollars in the "Vida Gude" shopping centers, where they also sell furniture Made in Angola by their factories. In a 2019 study of infrastructure development in the country, Alves da Rocha, director of the Angolan Catholic University’s Center for Scientific Studies and Research, estimates that Angola has lost about $20 billion due to corruption in the construction sector alone. On the occasion, the Portuguese Prime Minister Joze Socrates told his Chinese counter part that “Portugal can affirm itself as China’s partner in Africa - China has huge quantities of capital but we have the knowledge of the territory, of the language, of the cultures and the traditions”. Early this year Chinese companies were awarded a major contract to rehabilitate the Bengela railroad, which is the country’s major railroad at a cost of $300-500 million. However, Pompeo’s trip doesn’t appear to have produced anything tangible so far, other than anti-Chinese and pro-US rhetoric. In general, the African continent is predicted to have some 1.2 billion consumers by 2025. <> Ethiopia’s proximity to Djibouti, which houses an official Chinese military base, will also be of some concern to the powers-that-be in Washington, who further view Ethiopia as a key security ally.

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