EDITORIAL: The tricky business of playing the US-China game
Far away from the conditionality of structural adjustment programmes, Africa can only benefit from having diverse sources of funding
15 June 2021 - 05:10
For a country that was neither a member nor an invited guest at the Group of Seven (G-7) meeting over the weekend, China had an outsize influence on events.
Former US president Donald Trump might be gone and his successor Joe Biden was keen to emphasise that the US is “back” and ready to play a leading role in solving the world’s many problems, but competition with the world’s number two economy isn’t going anywhere any time soon. Domestic politics in the US mean it cannot be any other way...
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