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The United States, China and Africa: eyes on the prize

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Paul Rogers
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Three concerns – oil, China and the war on terror – are pushing the United States toward greater involvement in Africa.

The new United States defence budget involves a substantial increase in spending and a redirection of many military programmes towards counterinsurgency and responding to asymmetric warfare (see “The costs of America's long war”, 8 March 2007). It also entails a relatively little-noticed change in the orientation of the US military towards Africa, announced on 9 February 2007: the planned establishment of Africa Command (Africom).

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , March 2007 , e19
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