America’s War on Africa, Containing China by “Fighting Al-Qaeda”

Hidden Agenda behind America’s War on Africa: Containing China by “Fighting Al-Qaeda”

By Ben Schreiner

Harnessing Asia’s growth and dynamism is central to American economic and strategic interests. 

Hillary Clinton

France’s military intervention into Mali may at first glance appear to have little to do with the U.S. “pivot” to Asia. But as a French mission supposedly meant to bolster a U.N. sanctioned and African-led intervention has gone from “a question of weeks” to “the total re-conquest of Mali,” what may have begun as a French affair has now become a Western intervention. And this in turn has drawn wider strategic interests into the conflict. Strategic interests, it is becoming clearer, shaped by the imperatives of the U.S. Asia pivot.

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