China's Growing Footprint in North Africa

Brookings published in September 2019 a policy briefing titled "Beijing Calling: Assessing China's Growing Footprint in North Africa" by Adel Abdel Ghafar and Anna Jacobs, both with the Brookings Doha Center.

China has been ramping up engagement with North Africa, especially Egypt, Algeria, and Morocco, which lie at the intersection of the Middle East, Africa, and Mediterannean, an important region for Xi Jinping's key foreign policy project, the Belt and Road Initiative. The authors argue that China's growing role in North Africa should be cautiously welcomed, but also closely monitored, by governmenta in North Africa, Europe, and the United States.