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China's President Xi is in Africa...looking to make ACTUAL trade deals....
https://www.apnews.com/db3347e48147...arrives-for-Africa-visit-as-US-interest-wanes
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Africa on Saturday on a four-nation visit seeking deeper military and economic ties while his rival in a bitter trade war, the Trump administration, shows little interest in the world’s second most populous continent.
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China is already Africa’s largest trading partner, and it opened its first military base on the continent last year in the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, which this month launched a China-backed free trade zone it calls the largest in Africa. After surpassing the U.S. in arms sales to Africa in recent years, China this month hosted dozens of African military officials for the first China-Africa defense forum.
https://www.apnews.com/db3347e48147...arrives-for-Africa-visit-as-US-interest-wanes