Gaining Influence: China in Niger

Europe and the USA continue to lose influence in Africa due to the coup in Niger. The attitude of the coup plotters is anti-Western. This will benefit the BRICS countries, above all China, which remains neutral – if the situation remains militarily stable.

The military coup in Niger shifts the balance of power between the BRICS countries China, Russia and India on the one side, and France and the USA on the other. The West does not accept the military coup; the coup leaders, in turn, oppose the West. China’s presence, on the other hand, „will not be affected by the coup,“ Rahmane Idrissa, a researcher at the African Studies Centre at Leiden University in the Netherlands, soberly observes.

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