The Africa Center for Strategic Studies published on 29 November 2022 an analysis titled "China's Deepening Ties to Africa in Xi Jinping's Third Term" by Paul Nantulya.
The author suggests China's efforts to enlist African support can be expected to intensify during Xi's third term. The new foreign policy team will be supervised by outgoing Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who knows Africa well and was promoted to the Politburo as the new director of the CPC Central Foreign Affairs Commission.
Xi wants to instill Chinese values and governance norms as alternatives to the West and as part of a party-driven foreign policy. There will be an emphasis on "discourse power," which means China will make maximum use of its propaganda and media infrastructure. The CPC wants to remain Africa's most important destination for education and training and will ramp up this effort after it defeats COVID-19.
