Published on 30 Nov 2025

Africa’s Resource Battle: Has the China–US Contest Already Been Decided?

Chinese language daily Lianhe Zaobao carries a warning by Centre Director Amit Jain over great power competition for African resources

Singapore’s most widely read Chinese language daily interviewed the Director of the NTU-SBF Centre for African Studies on a feature story about the Simandou mining project in Guinea. He spoke about the state of FDI in Africa, prospect of de-dollarization of trade and the threat arising out of great power competition over African resources. Here is what he told Lianhe Zaobao. Read the full English translation.

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