Joe Biden recently became the first sitting president to visit Angola Africa. While there, the president

promised more than $1 billion in U.S. assistance, aiming to strengthen relations in the region and combat China's

presence there. In this episode, we sit down with an expert on the region to discuss America's shifting focus in Africa and what it might look like in the new Trump administration.

I'm Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe, and this is a special edition of Morning Wire.

Joining us now to discuss how the U.S. is approaching Africa as the head of Eurasia Group's

Africa practice, Amaka, Anku, Amaka. Thank you so much for coming on. Thank you for having me.

So President Biden just made this first ever presidential trip to Angola and announced over a billion

dollars in U.S. aid to that country. The U.S. has made several trips to Africa in recent years, largely to combat China's growing

influence in the region.

First, for our listeners, can you give us some background on China's presence in the region?

Sure.

So China has had an Africa policy, a very kind of clear strategic policy, I would say, since the early 2000s.

You can see some of the memes about how every Chinese foreign minister, the first trip was always to Africa for 33 years.

The strategy was clear. It was in exchange for us getting resources. Oftentimes it was oil from these African

countries. We'll finance large infrastructure governments. A lot of it was government's government

financing, you know, Chinese companies, some state law companies versus African governments.

I wanted to build bridges, roads.

And we will then also sell lots of goods and services, but also the money that we're

financing is effectively being used by thought from us to build the bridges. So that was a strategy

from the African perspective. And this is kind of where you'll see, we'll get to how I think it has now influenced how the U.S. sees Africa.

But from the African perspective, this was welcome because a lot of the traditional sources of fund and the World Bank, U.S., Western partners, were not financing

big-ticket infrastructure projects. A lot of funding from the West was going towards more

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