China Targets the Atlantic Ocean via the Sahel, ‘Wants a Naval Base There’

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China is using the resource-rich Sahel countries to gain access to the Atlantic coast, thereby completing a geoeconomic strategy it began two decades ago on the East African coast. This is written by researcher Raghvendra Kumar of the Foreign Policy Research Institute and Nalanda University. ‘For Beijing, the strategically located, landlocked, and resource-rich states in the Sahel region are not ends in themselves, but cartographic tools to gain…