US Should Present Better Alternatives for Africa to Counter China’s Debt-Trap Diplomacy

Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Malawi’s President Arthur Peter Mutharika (2nd row R), and other African leaders attend a group photo session during the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing, China, on Sept. 3, 2018. How Hwee Young/AFP/Getty Images

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African countries should not be left with a “tremendous debt that they cannot repay,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during his visit to the continent in April 2021.