{"id":150326,"date":"2023-03-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/?p=915619"},"modified":"2023-03-24T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T00:00:00","slug":"kamala-harris-to-address-chinas-influence-and-debt-distress-in-africa-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2023\/03\/24\/kamala-harris-to-address-chinas-influence-and-debt-distress-in-africa-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris to address China\u2019s influence and debt distress in Africa visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" ><img src=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/mediaintelasia-logo-blackyellow-400x300-1.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" alt=\"MediaIntel.Asia\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a working lunch during the U.S. Africa Leaders Summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, on Dec. 15, 2022.Andrew Harnik\/The Associated Press<br \/>\nVice President Kamala Harris starts a weeklong trip to Africa this weekend as the United States seeks to pitch itself as a better partner than China, which has invested heavily in the continent over several decades.<br \/>\nHarris will discuss China\u2019s engagement in technology and economic issues in Africa that concern the United States, as well as China\u2019s involvement in debt restructuring, senior U.S. officials said.<br \/>\nOne of the three countries Harris will visit is Zambia, which was the first African country to default on its sovereign debt during the COVID-19 pandemic, and is working with its creditors, including China, to reach an agreement.<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019re not asking our partners in Africa to choose,\u201d said a senior official, describing the competition with China, although he added that the U.S. has \u201creal concerns about some of China\u2019s behaviour in Africa\u201d and its \u201copaque\u201d business dealings.<br \/>\nHarris will be in Ghana from March 26-29, then in Tanzania from March 29-31. Her final stop is Zambia, on March 31 and April 1. She will meet with the three countries\u2019 presidents and plans to announce public- and private-sector investments.<br \/>\nThe official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said Harris would discuss the best ways for the international community to address debt challenges faced by Ghana and Zambia.<br \/>\nThe White House hosted an Africa Leaders Summit in December, and President Joe Biden is expected to travel to Africa this year.<br \/>\nHarris has a personal connection to Zambia. Her maternal grandfather worked in the country, and she visited him there as a girl.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Vice President is very much looking forward to returning to Lusaka, which is a part of her family\u2019s story and a source of pride,\u201d one of the officials said.<br \/>\nHarris will also meet with young leaders and business representatives and discuss topics such as climate change and food insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>This data comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" >MediaIntel.Asia's Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring Platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a working lunch during the U.S. Africa Leaders Summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, on Dec. 15, 2022.Andrew Harnik\/The Associated Press<br \/>\nVice President Kamala Harris starts a weeklon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1380,144,586,194,1542,120,484,1332],"tags":[10320,1884,10324,10388,10554,10495,10315,10328,10453,10336,10461],"class_list":["post-150326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-china","category-economy","category-news-chinese-law","category-technology","category-travel","category-united-states","category-white-house","tag-biden","tag-climate-change","tag-covid-19","tag-esg","tag-ghana","tag-kamala-harris","tag-media-intelligence","tag-pandemic","tag-tanzania","tag-washington","tag-zambia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150327,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150326\/revisions\/150327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}