{"id":98272,"date":"2022-08-08T20:25:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T20:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/biden-administration-launches-africa-strategy-but-the-real-targets-seem-to-be-china-russia"},"modified":"2022-08-08T20:25:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T20:25:05","slug":"biden-administration-launches-africa-strategy-but-the-real-targets-seem-to-be-china-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/biden-administration-launches-africa-strategy-but-the-real-targets-seem-to-be-china-russia","title":{"rendered":"Biden administration launches Africa strategy. But the real targets seem to be China, Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Russia and China looming in the background, America&#8217;s top diplomat pitched a &#8220;new chapter&#8221; in U.S.-African relations on Monday, promising robust trade and calling for democracy despite political upheaval in much of the continent. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken insisted his five-day swing through sub-Saharan Africa is aimed at making the region a priority for the administration in a dynamic of &#8220;equal partners.&#8221; But Blinken made no secret of his condemnation of Moscow and Beijing and what he said was their exploitation of African countries and resources. &#8220;We&#8217;ve seen the consequences when international infrastructure deals are corrupt and coercive; when they&#8217;re poorly built or environmentally destructive; when they import or abuse workers or burden countries with crushing debts,&#8221; Blinken said, alluding to what Washington officials regard as predatory lending practices, particularly by China. &#8220;That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s so important for countries to have choices,&#8221; he added. The Biden administration has been disappointed that South Africa and its neighbors have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has a tough sell in the new U.S. strategy for sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,101],"tags":[42,43,102],"class_list":["post-98272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-politics","tag-u-s-politics","tag-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}