December 10, 2020 2:01 PM / Leave a comment
China’s massive investments in Ethiopia give it a lot to lose amid renewed sectarian violence.
A Sudanese soldier speaks to Tigray refugees who fled a conflict in the Ethiopia’s Tigray region near the Lugdi border crossing, eastern Sudan, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020.
Credit: AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty
Media reports have hardly mentioned what the latest episode of sectarian violence in Ethiopia could cost China. Few of the East African country’s foreign investors have more to lose, however. Officials in Beijing see Ethiopia as a hub for the Belt and Road Initiative, an ongoing project to expand China’s sphere of influence by bankrolling infrastructure throughout the Global South. China has poured money into the East African country in a bid to earn its goodwill, but ever-rising tensions between Ethiopian ethnic groups are undermining that strategy
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