Before exiting, Joe Biden heads to Africa to highlight his own counter to China. Will Donald Trump take it up?
Biden is finally making his long-promised visit to Africa this week, attempting to showcase a US-backed railway project in three countries that he has pushed as a new approach in countering some of China's global influence. Biden's first visit to the continent as president — which he left to the very end — will highlight the Lobito Corridor railway redevelopment in Zambia, Congo and Angola. It aims to advance US presence in a region rich in the critical minerals used in batteries for electric vehicles, electronic devices and clean energy technologies.
That's a key field for US-China competition and China has a stranglehold on Africa's critical minerals.
A new strategy
The US has for years built relations in Africa through trade, security and humanitarian aid. The 800-mile (1,300-kilometer), $2.5 billion railway upgrade is a different move and has shades of China's Belt and Road foreign infrastructure strategy that has surged ahead.
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The Biden administration has called the corridor one of the president's signature initiatives.
Biden starts a three-day trip to Angola on Monday, yet Lobito's future and any change in the way the United States engages with a continent of 1.4 billion leaning heavily toward China depends on the incoming administration of Donald Trump.
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