In an article headlined ‘While America Slept, China became indispensable’, published in May this year, journalist Howard W French, an old China hand and former New York Times China bureau chief, observed that “China has spent several decades engaging in impressive great-power behaviour while provoking hardly any innovative policies by its principal rival, the United States”.

It is in this context that this issue of Africa in Fact, China vs US – the battle for digital supremacy in Africa, examines how the trade war that ignited between the two global powers during Donald Trump’s presidency has evolved into growing competition for digital supremacy on the continent.

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