The Foreign Policy Research Institute published on 11 September 2024 a commentary titled "Can Democracies Deliver? Thoughts Following the 2024 China-Africa Summit" by Nicolas K. Gvosdev.
The author lamented the disappointing lack of in-depth discussion in the US national security community of the issues raised during the recently concluded 9th Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing. For example, China's focus on green energy at FOCAC is an issue that the West needs to engage more effectively with Africa and the Global South generally.
