China Expands Influence in Africa by Building Government Facilities, West Starting to Counter

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In mid-May, 2021 China invested $35 million in Kenya to build a new foreign ministry building. Itโ€™s the latest in a series of investments and grants given by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to African countries, which allows the regime to expand its political and economic influence in the continent.

Chinaโ€™s investment offers, mainly through its Belt and Road Initiatives (BRI), have been widely criticized for setting up debt traps for recipient countries, along with accusations of espionage and infiltration. The West has now started to take counter measures.

Southern China Morning Post noted on May 23 that the CCP has been focusing on funding and building government buildings for African countries, which has aroused suspicion from the international community.

Currently, the $80 million new headquarters for the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which is funded by China, is under construction in the south of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Despite the U.S. governmentโ€™s warning in February 2020 that a China-funded and constructed CDC will be used by the regime to steal โ€œAfrican genetic data,โ€ construction started in December 2020.

According to The Heritage Foundation, China was involved in the building of more than 186 government buildings across 40 of 54 African countries. Even the African Union (AU) headquarters, located in Ethiopia, was fully financed and built by China.

In 2018, French newspaper Le Monde first revealed that AU technicians discovered that between 2012 and 2017, the Chinese-built African Union headquarters had been transmitting AUโ€™s confidential data to Shanghai daily through the buildingโ€™s IT network using servers provided by Chinese company Huawei.

Despite that, in 2019, AU signed deals with Huawai to expand the use of its technology and equipment in building 5G networks, artificial intelligence and cloud computing, and others.

China has developed 70 percent of Africaโ€™s 4G networks, and even built sensitive intra-governmental communications networks for 14 African countries.

BY ALEX WU

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