{"id":4394,"date":"2022-07-25T14:47:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T12:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projects.88designs.co.za\/acsus\/?p=4394"},"modified":"2022-07-26T11:46:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T09:46:33","slug":"china-vs-us-the-battle-for-digital-supremacy-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projects.88designs.co.za\/acsus\/china-vs-us-the-battle-for-digital-supremacy-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"China vs US the battle for digital supremacy in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In an article headlined &#8216;While America Slept, China became indispensable&#8217;, published in May this year, journalist Howard W French, an old China hand and former <em>New York Times<\/em> China bureau chief, observed that \u201cChina has spent several decades engaging in impressive great-power behaviour while provoking hardly any innovative policies by its principal rival, the United States\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is in this context that this issue of <em>Africa in Fact<\/em>, <em>China vs US \u2013 the battle for digital supremacy in Africa<\/em>, examines how the trade war that ignited between the two global powers during Donald Trump\u2019s presidency has evolved into growing competition for digital supremacy on the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.projects.88designs.co.za\/acsus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Africa_in_Fact_Issue_62.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.projects.88designs.co.za\/acsus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Africa_in_Fact_Issue_62.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.projects.88designs.co.za\/acsus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Africa_in_Fact_Issue_62.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article headlined &#8216;While America Slept, China became indispensable&#8217;, published in May this year, journalist Howard W French, an old China hand and former New York Times China bureau chief, observed that \u201cChina has spent several decades engaging in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[411,402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa-us-china","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projects.88designs.co.za\/acsus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projects.88designs.co.za\/acsus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projects.88designs.co.za\/acsus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projects.88designs.co.za\/acsus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projects.88designs.co.za\/acsus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.projects.88designs.co.za\/acsus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4403,"href":"https:\/\/www.projects.88designs.co.za\/acsus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394\/revisions\/4403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projects.88designs.co.za\/acsus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projects.88designs.co.za\/acsus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projects.88designs.co.za\/acsus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projects.88designs.co.za\/acsus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}