WASHINGTON—The United States will focus on “investment-led and trade-driven growth” to stifle China’s malign influence in Africa and to fight Beijing’s attempts at global hegemony, according to Washington’s most senior official for African affairs.
In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy on June 4, Troy Fitrell, senior official in the State Department’s Bureau of African Affairs, said the U.S. government under President Donald Trump will counter Beijing’s “predatory and destabilizing” behavior with “credible, reliable, and fair alternatives” aimed at benefiting Africans and Americans.
