Enough Room for the Eagle and Dragon? Chinese Resource Extraction and its Impact on U.S Military Operations in West Africa

United States Army Command and General Staff College

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This study has footnotes, charts, maps, list of acronyms, and bibliography. It is from U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and Kevin P. Peel

“The establishment of USAFRICOM in 2008 signaled the potential for a new subfocus of the U.S. military on the African continent. In West Africa, China was already firmly rooted with deep economic ties, and a plethora of trade deals to extract resources. Simultaneously, trans-national terrorist groups began to gather on the fringes of West Africa, presenting regional security concerns with potentially global impacts. But was China’s foothold in the region enough to hinder or prevent U.S. military access to the region? This research study explores the impact of China’s state-run resource extraction in West Africa, and the impact it had and continues to have on the U.S. DoD being able to effectively engage with the nations of West Africa.”

This study looks into Chinese operated or affiliated facilities include Tonkolili iron mine in Sierra Leone, Simandou iron mine in Guinea, Bong iron mine in Liberia, Jubilee oilfield offshore drilling, Soraz oil refinery in southern Niger, and oil drilling sites offshore southern Nigeria. These six facilities serve as the basis for the examination of Chinese mineral extraction in West Africa. Though limited in scope, these six facilities comprise all of China’s oil and iron extraction in the region, and account for China’s largest resource extraction efforts in West Africa.

West Africa, as defined by USAFRICOM, contains the nations of Benin, Burkina Faso, the Cape Verde Islands, Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo. These are also the members of the Economic Community of West African States . This differs from the United Nations definition of West Africa.

Pages: 85

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: February 08, 2018

Enough Room for the Eagle and Dragon? Chinese Resource Extraction and its Impact on U.S Military Operations in West Africa

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Enough Room for the Eagle and Dragon? Chinese Resource Extraction and its Impact on U.S Military Operations in West Africa

Enough Room for the Eagle and Dragon? Chinese Resource Extraction and its Impact on U.S Military Operations in West Africa

Enough Room for the Eagle and Dragon? Chinese Resource Extraction and its Impact on U.S Military Operations in West Africa

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