TITLE:
US-China Competition in Africa: The Strategic Ambiguity
AUTHORS:
Georges Olemanu Lohalo, Yuliannova Lestari, Tresor Shongo, Betao Ngoma Mushinda, Nicole Kajir Diur, Juguel Mbala Badila, Scheel Mutombo, Michel Yemba Nonga, Claude Boyoo Itaka, Chapy Mukaya Bafita, Francois Lokembo Mutshembe
KEYWORDS:
US-China Competition, Africa, Strategic Ambiguity, Principial Categorization, DRC
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Political Science,
Vol.12 No.4,
October
26,
2022
ABSTRACT: This paper briefly discusses the essence of the
US-China competition in Africa and introduces a principial categorization to
group their respective interests in Africa. It is about what US and China
individually want or seek to achieve in Africa, through their own tools and policies
towards the continent. For that, we thought, understanding these elements and
dimensions will enable the students of International Relations in general and
of great power politics, in particular, to better elucidate the post-cold war international system dynamics
especially, in the developing world. The principial categorization, through the case
of the DRC, helps understand why the US-China competition is overall moderate.