Analysis: China’s new African pearls
A string of proposed new ports and railways in East Africa is feeding China’s appetite for a greater say in Indian Ocean maritime security arrangements, since China’s President Xi Jinping has made the ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiative his signature political project.
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