A recent survey done in Africa suggests that the approval ratings of China and Russia have surpassed the approval ratings of America in Africa

  • China and Russia surpass the U.S. in approval ratings in Africa.

  • U.S. approval ratings in Africa at 56%, lagging behind China (58%) and Russia (64%).

  • Russia’s increasing popularity is attributed to arms sales, military training, and economic initiatives in Africa.

The survey which involved 130 countries globally saw a global increase in America’s disapproval ratings from 33% in 2022 to 36% in 2023. However, the US’s approval ratings between the same period remained the same at 41%.

In Africa however, the US’s approval rating stands at 56%, with China and Russia having 2% and 8% more respectively. ⠀

In Uganda, Gambia, and Kenya the approval rating of the US dropped by 29, 21 and 14 percentage points, respectively. With 23% and 25%, respectively, Libya and Somalia had the lowest scores. ⠀

As the US media recently claimed, citing an anonymous US source, Moscow may be able to address the continent’s urgent security demands through arms sales that exceed Washington’s capacity, which might account for Russia’s increasing popularity in Africa. ⠀

Russia has been on a mission to increase its influence in Africa. In addition to military ties, Russia has initiated a number of economic initiatives with the continent, including the building of a House of Africa in several of its states, shipments of free grains to the continent, nuclear deals, and more.

  • blterrible@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I’m sure that will never change. Russia and China seem like great chums who would never mistreat anyone for profit or power. I hear Ghana is getting a nuclear reactor from China! I’m sure that the Chinese will be happy to forgive those debts when Ghana inevitably can’t pay for it like the IMF has done regularly.

    • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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      6 months ago

      Not as much as the IMF yet. Difference is in the strings attached (or lack thereof, in Russia and China’s cases). Strangest thing, is those two entities get accused of debt trapping all the time, but I’ve never once heard of Russia or China actually leveraging the traps the crackers INSIST are being planted and engaged. Meanwhile, I hear about Amerikan pressure all the goddamn time.

      It’s almost like they see what’s happening to their neighbors, see what’s happening across the water, and decide “well we can’t trust them old crackers in the West.”

    • FenrirIII@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      ‘Invested’ is a polite term. They’re granting loans in exchange for ports and land. Most of those loans will probably not be repaid and China will come to collect.

      • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Have you read these agreements or are you just going on vibes?

  • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Islamic countries aren’t buying the US’s Uyghur genocide psyop. That propaganda only seems to work on the Fourteen Eyes’ own people, who live in a media bubble.

    • NoLifeGaming@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      No, they don’t like US and EU due to recent colonization past and wars (add the palestine issue now too). Many either don’t know about the uyghur issue or see russia and China as allies for them. Though I’d say false allies because Russia for example has done many heinous crimes in the mid east including help the Asad regime against his people.

    • nyctre@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Psyop is a big word. Overblown, maybe, but definitely not a psyop. Just because there’s no evidence that they’re getting murdered doesn’t mean what’s happening is ok.

      People are more likely just uniformed, like the vast majority of people everywhere. And it’s easy to distrust america when they’re all over the news with their fucked up stuff. And despite all that they’re still above 50% with russia and china not much higher, so… Whatever.

      • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        6 months ago

        The US tried to foment division in China by funding and organizing terrorist cells in Xinjiang, and when those efforts failed it concocted and promoted a genocide narrative. Antony Blinken is still pushing this slop, just last week.

        We see here for example the evolution of public opinion in regards to China. In 2019, the ‘Uyghur genocide’ was broken by the media (Buzzfeed, of all outlets). In this story, we saw the machine I described up until now move in real time. Suddenly, newspapers, TV, websites were all flooded with stories about the ‘genocide’, all day, every day. People whom we’d never heard of before were brought in as experts — Adrian Zenz, to name just one; a man who does not even speak a word of Chinese.

        Organizations were suddenly becoming very active and important. The World Uyghur Congress, a very serious-sounding NGO, is actually an NED Front operating out of Germany […]. From their official website, they declare themselves to be the sole legitimate representative of all Uyghurs — presumably not having asked Uyghurs in Xinjiang what they thought about that.

        The WUC also has ties to the Grey Wolves, a fascist paramilitary group in Turkey, through the father of their founder, Isa Yusuf Alptekin.

        Documents came out from NGOs to further legitimize the media reporting. This is how a report from the very professional-sounding China Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) came to exist. They claimed ‘up to 1.3 million’ Uyghurs were imprisoned in camps. What they didn’t say was how they got this number: they interviewed a total of 10 people from rural Xinjiang and asked them to estimate how many people might have been taken away. They then extrapolated the guesstimates they got and arrived at the 1.3 million figure.

        Sanctions were enacted against China — Xinjiang cotton for example had trouble finding buyers after Western companies were pressured into boycotting it. Instead of helping fight against the purported genocide, this act actually made life more difficult for the people of Xinjiang who depend on this trade for their livelihood (as we all do depend on our skills to make a livelihood).

        Any attempt China made to defend itself was met with more suspicion. They invited a UN delegation which was blocked by the US. The delegation eventually made it there, but three years later. The Arab League also visited Xinjiang and actually commended China on their policies — aimed at reducing terrorism through education and social integration, not through bombing like we tend to do in the West.

  • Binthinkin@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    American aid USAID is the laziest thing Americans can do for Africa because 75% of the country is too fat to fly there and 100% are too stupid to know what to do.

    The Chinese put in sweat equity while Americans avoid sweating at all costs because it’ll ruin their new Tee shirt or whatever.

    Statistically speaking, 75% of people commenting in here are over 250lbs and never seen a flight longer than 3 hours. Thus making it impossible to help in any realistic way.

    The Chinese are just taking over what colonials and Americans have abandoned because it let’s face it, they have a racism and fascism problem.

    Americans think throwing worthless dollars at problems they can solve anything.

    You guys really are fucking collapsing huh?

  • moon@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Africa: Liberates itself from imperialist colonisation in the decades after after WWII USA: Takes advantage of the post-war European Imperialist vacuum to go and do some imperialism for itself in Latin America, Asia and later the Middle-East Africa: Mistrusts USA USA: Pikachu shocked face

  • Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    Moscow may be able to address the continent’s urgent security demands through arms sales that exceed Washington’s capacity

    Happens when you deindustrialize your own country to crush working-class movements