China-Africa Security Radar published on 16 November 2025 an article titled "Mombasa's Strategic Dilemma: Balancing Beijing's Warships and Washington's Partnership" by Paa Kwesi Wolseley Prah.
The recent visit to the port of Mombasa by a PLA navy destroyer underscores Kenya's balancing of its close security relationship with the United States. For Kenya, it also signals strategic autonomy and unwillingness to become any single power's client state.
