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Title: Africa Is Choosing China over the U.S.: The Case of Cape Verde
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URL Source: https://covertactionmagazine.com/20 ... he-u-s-the-case-of-cape-verde/
Published: Apr 26, 2021
Author: Aidan O’Brien
Post Date: 2021-04-26 09:49:07 by Ada
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In February the U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, made it a priority to phone Rui Figueiredo, the Foreign Affairs and Defense Minister of Cape Verde. They spoke about commerce and “security.” [1]

News Archives | U.S. Embassy in Cabo Verde Antony Blinken and Rui Figueiredo. [Source: cv.usembassy.gov] Why is the tiny African nation of Cape Verde (population 550,000) a U.S. priority? It is because the U.S. is behind China in the latest “scramble for Africa.”

Cape Verde Islands | Operation World [Source: operationworld.org] To rectify its position, vis-à-vis China, in Africa, U.S. President Joe Biden pledged to put values at the heart of his administration’s China policy. Since entering office, he has called on the world’s democracies to “gird for a new era of strategic competition with China.”[2]

To cut through U.S. rhetoric and reveal the covert value system of the U.S. in Africa, the word “security” is instructive.

Antony Blinken’s concern for the “security” of Cape Verde automatically activates a destructive infrastructure that’s summed up in the Americanisms: “war on drugs,” “war on terror” and the “United States African Command” (AFRICOM). War and its latest accoutrements actually define U.S. values in Africa.

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