Dr. Bruno Surdel, a CSM analyst in a Radio Wnet interview, stated that China is the main player in West Africa and that the assessment of Chinese influence is highly diverse.
If we ask the people of Africa, we will get completely different narratives. 1 says that China is simply a country that, unlike the West, does not set conditions for helping. The global Monetary Fund, but besides the European Union, if they are providing assistance, they want any reform, they want to build a state, they want transparency, but on the another hand they introduce their own agenda, ideas. Meanwhile, sub-Saharan Africa is simply a region that wants to make in its own wayI don't want to be taught by the West.
On the another hand, as Dr. Surdel points out, China lends to be repaid, and if there is no money, it pays in kind.
China uses its own technology, its own workers. And if there's no way to repay the debt, they take over the infrastructure or the land. This is indeed a very neo-colonial way of conducting abroad policy.
