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Why Is the Biden Administration Enabling Chinese Influence in Africa?

31 May 2022

5270 | May 31, 2022 DOUGLaS aND SaRaH aLLISON CENTER FOR FOREIGN POLICy Why Is the Biden Administration Enabling Chinese Influence in Africa? Max Primorac In its singular pursuit of curbing global warming, KEY TAKEAWAYS the Biden Administration has teamed up with the pro-China Bezos Earth Fund to electrify sub-Sa- The Biden administration has teamed up haran Africa, one of the poorest areas of the. [...] 5270 May 31, 2022 | 2 heritage.org for sub-Saharan Africa by accelerating new distributed renewable energy and grid-based solutions through the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet.”1 Sub-Saharan Africa is home to the world’s poorest countries, with tens of millions of people languishing in crushing poverty.2 Providing cheap energy to the poorest of the poor is an admirable goal, given tha. [...] An internal 2018 Amazon corporate document stated: “Ideological control and propaganda is the core of the toolkit for the communist party to achieve and maintain its success”—noting that Amazon will not make “judgement on whether it is right or wrong.”11 Whether similar callous commercial interests drove Bezos to hire a China-friendly CEO is hard to know, but the move echoes the willing tone deafn. [...] While China portrays itself as a global leader on climate challenges, facilitated through foreign proxies, such as Andrew Steer, it remains “the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, the largest source of marine debris; the worst perpetrators of illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing; and the world’s largest consumer of trafficked wildlife and timber products,” according to a 20. [...] In its “Global Energy Review: CO2 Emissions in 2021,” the International Energy Agency concluded that “China accounted for almost all of the global increase in electricity and heat sector emissions between 2019 and 2021.””13 The U.
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