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US-China Competition in Africa

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China's Main Objectives in Africa

China's primary objectives are to secure what it calls its core national interests. And then Africa, well, you could say the developing world of the global south is a kind of sub-part of China's geostrategic interest at large. So China in Africa seeks to pursue these interests and to advance them. It has been spectacularly successful. Only tiny East Watini, formerly Swaziland, does not recognize China,. All others that had previously recognized Taiwan no longer do.

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