Biden says the US is 'all in' on Africa during his Angola visit meant to counter China

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 2:03 PM EST, December 3, 2024


LUANDA, Angola (AP) — Speaking of “our nation’s original sin,” President Joe Biden on Tuesday toured a slavery museum in Angola and inspected shackles and a whip but also addressed Africa’s future, saying Africans will make up one in four people by 2050 and the world’s fate rests in their hands.

Biden’s visit, the first to Angola by a U.S. president, is meant to promote billions of dollars of commitments to the sub-Saharan African nation for what he called the largest ever U.S. rail investment overseas. “The United States is all in on Africa,” Biden earlier Tuesday told Angolan President João Lourenço, who called Biden’s visit a key turning point in U.S.-Angola relations dating back to the Cold War.

But even as the trip was meant to counter China’s influence on the African continent of over 1.4 billion people by showcasing a U.S. commitment of $3 billion for the Lobito Corridor railway redevelopment linking Zambia, Congo and Angola, China announced its own move.

The corridor across southern Africa is meant to make it easier to ship raw materials for export and advance the U.S. presence in a region rich in critical minerals used in batteries for electric vehicles, electronic devices and clean energy technologies.

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[Zorro]

1. China is making inroads all over the third-world

The US global retreat from providing international assistance has created a vacuum for China to step in and take a leading role in influencing foreign states and their economies.

It's looking to me that the 21st century will be dominated by the Chinese, and it did not have to be that way; our short-sighted domestic politics is ruining our previously strong relationships with other countries.

[slightlv]

3. The Magas, like the John Birch society,

wants America to go full-on isolationism. But while it *may* have been possible back "in the old days," that kind of attitude can't work in today's world. Of course, we're going to lose a lot of economic activity, good faith, and respect as well as harm people here and all over the world, trying to prove that saying wrong. Magas don't seem to comprehend that anything they buy now consists of parts made from all over the world, even if it's finally assembled in America. They don't understand globalism because they hate it, and think they can just make it go away. We're going to end up hitting rock bottom before these Magas finally figure out something has to change, and then they'll fight the change every way they can.

[JoseBalow]

2. Player 3 has entered the game

Better late than never, I guess...