China's Long Shadow Over the U.S.-Africa Summit
The China in Africa Podcast
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Africa and the Global Self - Is There a Better Way?
President Biden did not hold bilateral meetings with African leaders at the US Africa Leaders Summit. Peter Fum, a former ambassador to the Great Lakes, is one of the most outspoken anti-China folks in the Beltway regarding Africa. He wrote on Twitter that African presidents must be wondering where the US president is at their summits with China or Russia. And he included a photo of a meeting that Blinken was having with African leaders and then a bilateral meeting that Putin had with African leaders. This also came up at the press conference with Jake Sullivan that we started the show with back on Monday when a journalist asked him why didn't the White House plan one-on-one meeting?
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