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AFRICA AND CHINA’S STRATEGIC THINKING

Chinese strategists evidently envisage the continent as an essential piece in an escalating geostrategic contest for global influence between their country and the U.S.-led West. The ultimate purpose of Beijing’s emerging strategy is not to encourage or support Africa’s development for its own sake but rather to make the continent fit into a new subsystem comprising much of the global South that China aspires to dominate.

— Nadège Rolland in “A New Great Game?
Situating Africa in China’s Strategic Thinking”

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