Friends of Angola

Picture source: MintPress News By Ed Cropley (The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist.) LONDON, Dec 28 (Reuters Breakingviews) – China and the United States’ global Cold War has an increasingly important theatre: Africa. On different metrics Uncle Sam and the Middle Kingdom can claim to be the continent’s biggest player. In 2019, China will…

chinaafricaproject.comchinaafricaproject.com Photo By Yinka Adegoke, Quartz Africa editor The Angolan newspaper Expansão had an intriguing front page cover this week. It declared, “Every Angolan owes $745 to China.” It also listed debt to other countries, but debt to China was more than seven times what’s owed to the next creditor, Israel. By some estimates Angola…