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.
North America
China and Africa prepare the future while the US locks itself into the past
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 runs into a wall in Yemen
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.
What will determine the outcome of the economic “protracted war” between China and the U.S.?
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.
The high-stakes, global battle over Trump’s tariffs
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 assault on U.S. living standards to attack China
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.