Is the US and EU's anti-China railway in Africa mostly hype?
Europolis: The Global Europe Podcast by ECDPMShow Notes
The Lobito Corridor has been sold as the flagship of Western efforts to compete with China in Africa: a multi-billion-dollar railway carrying critical minerals from the heart of the continent to the Atlantic. The reality is smaller, stranger and far more revealing. This episode is as much about propaganda and perception as it is about rail and minerals.
In this episode of Europolis: the global Europe podcast, host Poorva Karkare sits down with Lee Jones (Professor of Political Economy and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London) and Shahar Hameiri (Professor of International Politics, University of Queensland) to separate what the Lobito Corridor actually is from the story that has been told about it, and ask how African governments are exercising their own agency in the process. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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