TurningPoint, an independent, international, online magazine, posted on 29 October 2025 a commentary titled "Shaping Tomorrow: How China and Africa Are Negotiating a Shared Future" by Gaia Guatri, an independent documentarian.
The author takes a long look in mostly Anglophone Africa at the positive and negative role China is playing. She concludes that "Chinese capital has brought visible transformation: new railways, ports, and digital platforms; yet it has also incurred opaque debts, scarred landscapes, and fragile dependencies. With the world's youngest population, Africa stands at a crossroads: it can turn this engagement into a springboard for renewal or slide deeper into a cycle of extraction and imbalance."
