Friday, May 22, 2020

Is Africa Getting What It Needs from China?

Premium Times published on 19 May 2020 a commentary titled "China, Africa and the World after COVID-19" by Kingsley Moghalu, former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria.

The author concludes that African countries are approaching their relations with China in the wrong way.  Relations have been focused on trade and access to cheap loans, both of which will likely decline in the post-COVID-19 world.  He suggests that African countries should be advancing their strategic interests such as challenging in the World Trade Organization the dumping of Chinese goods in African markets.