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Why an African leader says he has no problem borrowing from China
The polarising long-time president of Rwanda, who has led his country’s post-genocide revival, feels disturbed by superpower rivalry.
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame has been among the African leaders most vocal in praising China’s approach to Africa.
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s lamentations over the US-China rivalry sound more like those of an Asian leader caught up in this power struggle than the head of a small, landlocked African nation far from the Pacific.
Yet his insistence that this rivalry be treated as a top priority is a stark reminder of just how deeply the superpowers’ jostling for influence is reverberating across Africa.
