Report

Outcompeting strategic challengers

This report from UK think tank the Coalition for Global Prosperity looks at the case of China in Africa.

Both the original Integrated Review (IR21) and the recently published refresh (IR23) are right to identify China’s rise and increasingly assertive global role as the most significant change to the geopolitical context in the 21st century. However, both of these strategies fail to grapple with implications of China’s growing role on the African continent, and what these will mean for the UK’s partnerships with our key foreign policy partners across Africa. This report shows how the UK can be a serious and responsible development partner of choice for countries looking for alternatives to China.