Author(s)

Georges Olemanu Lohalo^1*, Yuliannova Lestari², Tresor Shongo³, Betao Ngoma Mushinda¹, Nicole Kajir Diur¹, Juguel Mbala Badila¹, Scheel Mutombo¹, Michel Yemba Nonga⁴, Claude Boyoo Itaka¹, Chapy Mukaya Bafita⁵, Francois Lokembo Mutshembe¹

¹Department of International Relations, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, DRC.
²School of Politics and International Studies, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China.
³School of International Relations, University of Business and Economics, Beijing, China.
⁴Institut Supérieur de la Gombe, Kinshasa, DRC.
⁵CERDAS, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, DRC.

This paper briefly discusses the essence of the US-China competition in Africa and introduces a principial categorization to group their respective interests in Africa. It is about what US and China individually want or seek to achieve in Africa, through their own tools and policies towards the continent. For that, we thought, understanding these elements and dimensions will enable the students of International Relations in general and of great power politics, in particular, to better elucidate the post-cold war international system dynamics especially, in the developing world. The principial categorization, through the case of the DRC, helps understand why the US-China competition is overall moderate.

US-China Competition, Africa, Strategic Ambiguity, Principial Categorization, DRC

Lohalo, G. , Lestari, Y. , Shongo, T. , Mushinda, B. , Diur, N. , Badila, J. , Mutombo, S. , Nonga, M. , Itaka, C. , Bafita, C. and Mutshembe, F. (2022) US-China Competition in Africa: The Strategic Ambiguity. Open Journal of Political Science, 12, 670-684. doi: 10.4236/ojps.2022.124036.