US Cold War with China — first stop, Equatorial Guinea
Right out of the playbook: hype the threat of a potential Chinese naval base facing the Atlantic, get more funding for military operations.
Daniel Volman is the Director of the African Security Research Project in Washington, D.C. He received his Ph.D. in African History from UCLA in 1991. He is a specialist on U.S. security policy toward Africa and on American, Russian, and Chinese military activities in Africa. His work has appeared in the New York Times, AllAfrica.Com, the Journal of Modern African Studies, Third World Quarterly, Current History, and other publications, and he has appeared on BBC Radio, the Voice of America Radio and TV, and Al-Jazeera TV.
Right out of the playbook: hype the threat of a potential Chinese naval base facing the Atlantic, get more funding for military operations.