US Africa Strategy More about China than Africa

The Interpreter, a publication of the independent Australian Lowry Institute think tank, posted on 20 December 2018 a commentary titled "The New US Africa Strategy Is Not about Africa. It's about China" by Cornelia Tremann.

The author concludes that asking developing countries to choose between the US and China is a bad idea. I agree. She adds that US strategy should focus on US-Africa relations, not on China-Africa relations. Again, I agree although in all fairness there is a significant component of the new strategy that does not focus on China. Most of this component depends, however, on the US private sector, which does not necessarily take direction from the US government.