
Africa Report
A report on Africa’s current political struggles, including: the uprising in Kenya; the US vs China and recent developments in the Sahel.
A report on Africa’s current political struggles, including: the uprising in Kenya; the US vs China and recent developments in the Sahel.
China overtook the US as Africa’s largest trading partner, and largest source of investment between 2013 – 2019. The US’s share of Africa’s foreign trade fell from 15.5% to 5.6%, while China’s share jumped from 4% to 25.6%.
Trump has reached an agreement with Ansar Allah, in which the US will no longer attack Yemen. Ansar Allah has agreed to no longer attack the US navy in the Red Sea, but continues to interdict shipping bound for Israel, and its long-range military action against Israel.
China has a won clear victory in the first battle of the US “trade war”. But the U.S. will not abandon its economic struggle against China. This article analyses the forces that will determine the outcome of this “protracted” economic war.
Trump’s “tariff war” is an attempt to bring the entire world trading system under unilateral US control, removing any minimal element of multilateral negotiation from it.
Trump’s real tactic is to defeat the U.S. people, to sharply increase the rate of exploitation of them, and to use this victory to attack China.
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