China-Africa Security Radar posted on 7 December 2025 an article titled "Africa Increasingly Aligning with China's Global Security Initiative."
Senior African Union officials are underscoring the strategic alignment of China's Global Security Initiative (GSI) with the doctrine of African solutions to African problems. Africa has become a testing ground for GSI.
But there are drawbacks to the GSI. For example, it lacks a clear operational definition, detailed criteria for participation, or concrete benchmarks for implementation.
