Biden is losing Africa and here’s why that should scare us

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Across the world, President Joe Biden’s foreign policy has ceded ground to enemies of the United States. Now, after decades of development work and hundreds of billions of dollars in aid to Africa, including saving countless lives through PEPFAR, the United States is rapidly losing the continent to warlords, Russian mercenaries and the Chinese Communist Party.

In March, in a massive diplomatic failure, our military was unceremoniously asked to leave Niger. Adding insult to injury, Russian forces have taken over the newly vacated barracks built during the Trump administration to house counter-terror forces. This failure encapsulates how our enemies have taken advantage of U.S. investments in Africa for their own purposes.

For the past 30 years, the Chinese Foreign Minister’s first foreign trip has always been to Africa. This has paid enormous dividends for China. In 2001, the United States traded roughly four times more with Africa than China – that ratio has since been reversed. In 2021, China traded $254 billion to America’s $64 billion. There are now over 10,000 Chinese companies operating in Africa with over $2 trillion in value. We focused so much on aid that we completely neglected trade.

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In short, Biden’s Africa policy has failed. The