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Evil Usa's Fake Jew Blinken Starts Anti Russia-China Africa Tour:S.Africa FM Slams Him!!! WEEY GUUD !!!

Post by tarik » 08 Aug 2022, 19:00

White House unveils Africa strategy

President Joe Biden is hoping to stand against Beijing with democracy, vaccines, and climate policy

The White House on Monday published its new strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa, which explicitly aims to counter China’s extensive investment on the continent and oppose Russia’s supposed “harmful activities” there.

The plan does not set out any concrete dollar amount that the US intends to spend in Africa. Rather, it outlines Washington’s broader policy aims on the continent, some of which overlap with the $600 billion ‘Partnership for Global Infrastructure’ plan announced by the leaders of the G7 countries in June.

The US says it will “foster openness and open societies” by promoting democracy and anti-corruption initiatives, “deliver democratic and security dividends” by opposing authoritarian leaders and promoting women’s and LGBT rights, “advance pandemic recovery” by delivering Covid-19 vaccines and support “climate adaptation and a just energy transition” by reducing carbon emissions and investing in the mineral extraction necessary for green energy technologies.

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While the US plan is heavy on buzzwords, it is competing with a Chinese vision for Africa that Beijing says has already delivered tangible results.

Trade between China and Africa rose by 35% in 2021 to $254 billion, Bloomberg reported last week. Under its Belt and Road Initiative, Beijing has built ports, roads and other infrastructure in 43 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Although the pace of this investment has slowed since the coronavirus pandemic hit in 2020, China loaned approximately $126 billion to African countries between 2001 and 2018, and spent $41 billion on foreign direct investment there, according to figures from the US-based Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI).

The FPRI warned that this influx of investment has made African leaders more likely to side with China in UN voting, and the US’ latest strategy echoes these concerns. Beijing “sees the region as an important arena to…advance its own narrow commercial and geopolitical interests, and weaken US relations with African peoples and governments,” the document stated.

Washington has also blamed Russia for its loss of influence in Africa. According to the strategy, Moscow “uses its security and economic ties, as well as disinformation, to undercut Africans’ principled opposition to Russia’s further invasion of Ukraine.”

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However, roughly half of Africa refused to support the UN General Assembly’s resolution to condemn Russia’s actions in Ukraine, and no country on the continent has so far joined the West’s sanctions.

Dependent on both Ukraine and Russia for food imports, African leaders have chosen to remain neutral, but when Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky addressed the African Union in June, only four of the continent’s 55 heads of state showed up to listen. Following the virtual meeting, Senegalese President and African Union Chairman Macky Sall indicated that Africa’s position of neutrality over the conflict remained unchanged.

Given this disinterest, the US will have the Pentagon reach out to Africa’s militaries. According to the strategy, the Department of Defense “will engage with African partners to expose and highlight the risks of negative [Chinese] and Russian activities in Africa.” How the Pentagon will achieve this is not explained.

Asked whether the US would punish any African countries that continue to engage with Russia, US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield told reporters last week that she would “caution that companies should not engage with countries that have been sanctioned by the United States.”

China has held this statement up as proof that Washington’s motives in Africa are less than altruistic. An article in the state-run Global Times on Monday said that Thomas-Greenfield’s words laid “bare the US government’s coercion and hegemony.”

“Chinese enterprises have become an important force in promoting industrialization and modernization in Africa. This has led the US to re-examine the African market from a ‘competitive’ perspective,” the article read. “Bringing Africa to the path of confrontation or a new Cold War will undoubtedly lead to a disaster in the continent.”

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South African FM to Visiting Blinken on Anti-Russia Tour: Be ‘Equally Concerned’ With Palestine


Secretary of State Antony Blinken, accompanied by South Africa's Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor, speaks during a news conference after meeting together at the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation in Pretoria, South Africa, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. Blinken is on a ten day trip to Cambodia, Philippines, South Africa, Congo, and Rwanda. -
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken began a three-nation tour of Africa on Sunday in an effort to bring back into the Western fold several nations considered to be at risk of sliding into the Russian sphere of influence. Ironically, while doing so, he has proclaimed Washington’s respect for their sovereignty.

Speaking at the University of Pretoria on Monday, Blinken said the US sees the 54 nations of Africa as “equal partners” in efforts such as combating climate change, recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, and “strengthening the free and open international order.”
“Our strategy is rooted in the recognition that sub-Saharan Africa is a major geopolitical force - one that has shaped our past, is shaping our present, and will shape our future,” Blinken said. “It’s a strategy that reflects the region’s complexity, its diversity, its agency; and one that focuses on what we will do with African nations and peoples, not for African nations and peoples.”
That past, however, includes the importation of roughly 400,000 African slaves before the US banned the international slave trade in 1808. Later, the US supported the spread of European imperialism across the continent and meddled extensively in its anti-colonial struggles, including orchestrating the assassination of the Congo’s first independent leader, Patrice Lumumba, and supporting the invasion of Angola by apartheid-ruled South Africa. More recently, US-trained African officers have developed a habit of overthrowing their governments.
Prior to his Monday speech, Blinken met with his South African counterpart, Naledi Pandor. The government of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has refused to follow Washington’s lead in condemning Russia’s special operation in Ukraine and adopted a neutral, non-aligned position, and a major goal of Blinken’s tour is to pull such nations back toward the US sphere of influence.


Instead, at a news briefing after their meeting, Pandor criticized Washington for its singular focus on Ukraine.
“We should be equally concerned at what is happening to the people of Palestine, as we are with what is happening to the people of Ukraine,” she said.
South Africa, which only emerged from white supremacist apartheid rule in 1994 after decades of struggle by the country’s Black African majority, has strongly supported the Palestinian struggle in the decades since. Indeed, the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is inspired by the international anti-apartheid boycott of the late 20th century.
Speaking before the Conference of Palestinian Heads of Mission in Africa last month, Pandor condemned Israel for “committing crimes of Apartheid and persecution against Palestinians.”
On Sunday night, a ceasefire ended three days of fighting between Israeli and Palestinian forces that had begun with an unannounced Israeli airstrike in central Gaza City that blew the side off an apartment block, killing 10 and wounding dozens more. As of Monday, the death toll had risen to 41, all of them in Gaza. The violence came about 16 months after an 11-day war that killed nearly 260 Palestinians in Gaza and 13 Israelis.
When US President Joe Biden visited the West Bank city of Ramallah last month, he was greeted with protests accusing him of “ignoring the Palestinian issue.” His trip was widely seen as attempting to shore up support for US policies against Iran and to convince the Saudis to lower oil prices, not at halting the radical pro-settlement policies of the Israeli government. Shortly after his visit, Jerusalem authorized a massive new expansion of housing units for Jews in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Blinken’s trip will also take him to Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, two nations that have sat on the brink of war for months as each accuses the other of backing proxy forces in the DRC’s North Kivu Province. In addition, Blinken’s visit to Kinshasa will come just weeks after one by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who also visited Uganda and Ethiopia.
"We have our principle, our long-term relations, which do not depend on the current global situation and so, apparently, our work in the sphere of ties with African countries will expand,” Lavrov told Sputnik at a press conference in Kampala during the trip. “But given the current situation and the current activities undertaken by the West, objectively the role of the African continent will grow in our work.”