The United States was out in force in Cape Town this month, throwing down a direct challenge to China at Africa\u2019s biggest mining conference, the Investing in African Mining Indaba.<\/p>\n
While Chinese firms showed their technological leadership with automation and green energy solutions, officials from the State Department, the Department of Energy and several US development agencies were among the record number of American diplomats and financiers at the event in South Africa.<\/p>\n
Analysts said the US was looking to buy Africa\u2019s critical minerals through financing deals \u2013 but it would take more than money to break China\u2019s dominance.<\/p>\n
He added that the Indaba \u2013 a Zulu and Xhosa word for a conference \u2013 illustrated that \u201cAfrica\u2019s mineral wealth remains central to global strategic competition, but the extent to which African states can shape it remains complex\u201d.<\/p>\n
The visit followed several multibillion-dollar initiatives in what is regarded as Washington\u2019s most aggressive push to secure critical mineral supplies and challenge China, which has a near monopoly on the production and processing of critical and rare earth minerals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States was out in force in Cape Town this month, throwing down a direct challenge to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3711,2857,84,21322,891,57954,141,1294,163237,6800,163238,151127,4247,56,54,158,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-451063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-angola","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-cape-town","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-economy","16":"tag-investing-in-african-mining-indaba","17":"tag-joe-biden","18":"tag-lobito-atlantic-railway","19":"tag-project-vault","20":"tag-south-africa","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}