From Washington: Combatting China's Influence in Africa

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

Politics, Daily News, News

3.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

President Biden made a historic trip to Angola last week, fulfilling a first-term pledge to visit Africa and becoming the first sitting President to visit the country. While there, the President met with regional leaders and announced more than $1 billion in U.S. assistance -- aiming to strengthen relations in the region and combat China's growing influence. Head of the Eurasia Group's Africa practice, Amaka Anku, weighs in on the importance of America and Africa's relationship, and if it will continue to develop under the Trump Administration. President-elect Donald Trump made headlines with his proposed tariffs for Canada, China, and Mexico. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with the President-elect earlier in the week amidst fears that new tariffs could hurt Canada’s economy. But what exactly are tariffs, and how have they been used in the past? FOX News Contributor and former Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush Karl Rove answers those questions and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Shopify.
0:03.0	Looking to start a side hustle or become your own boss, do it with Shopify.
0:06.9	Whether you're selling succulents or stilettos,
0:09.3	Shopify has the industry leading tools to help you create, control and grow your own business.
0:13.9	So get serious about selling and get Shopify today.
0:16.9	Sign up for a £1 per month trial period at Shopify.com.com slash special offer or lowercase.
0:23.1	That's Shopify.com.com slash special offer.
0:30.9	Sunday, December 8th, 2024. I'm Jared Halpern.
0:36.2	President Biden marks a big infrastructure project in Africa with his first visit to Angola
0:42.3	in the goal of making a footprint where China has influence.
0:46.3	Nobody in Africa wants to live in a China-like society, right?
0:50.3	People want to live in a free, open, democratic society. And so what we need to do
0:56.4	to support that is to support economic transformation to make that possible.
1:02.0	I'm Jessica Rosenthal. The president-elect has promised to go even bigger this time with his plan to use tariffs, mostly as an economic negotiating tool.
1:17.1	But it became a theory called protectionism in which the thought was that infant industries in the United States like steel and our agriculture faced unfair competition from foreign sources.
1:23.9	This is the Fox News rundown from Washington.
1:37.4	Air Force One touchdown where it never has before a week ago, Angola, on the southwestern Africa coast. President Biden fulfilled
1:46.7	a first term pledge to visit Africa and became the first sitting American president to travel to
1:52.3	Angola. As we know, the challenges to define our age demand African leadership.
1:58.7	The president met with regional leaders and announced billions of new dollars
2:02.6	in U.S. assistance for refugees
2:04.4	in a first of its kind,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from FOX News Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of FOX News Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.