Relative U.S. Silence on Africa Opens Door Wider for China

The National Interest published on 9 October 2017 a commentary titled "Trump Needs to Spell Out Strategy for Africa -- Before It's Too Late" by Marcel Plichta, postgraduate student at the University of Glasgow.

The author comments there has been little evidence that the Trump administration plans to engage Africa politically or economically. As Chinese economic and political ties across Africa grow, increasingly stagnant U.S. policy threatens to undermine American interests.