{"id":130462,"date":"2025-06-03T10:02:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T10:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130462"},"modified":"2025-06-03T10:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T10:02:25","slug":"us-steps-up-contest-with-china-in-africa-by-counting-ambassadors-business-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130462","title":{"rendered":"US steps up contest with China in Africa by counting ambassadors\u2019 business deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US State Department has introduced performance metrics for American ambassadors in Africa to evaluate them based on the number of business deals they make as part of the US government\u2019s new \u201ctrade, not aid\u201d approach.<br \/>\nWithin its first 100 days, President Donald Trump\u2019s second administration secured 33 deals worth US$6 billion across the continent, announced Troy Fitrell, senior US official for the Bureau of African Affairs, at the launch of the bureau in mid-May.<br \/>\nThe US\u2019 new commercial&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3312907\/us-steps-contest-china-africa-focusing-ambassadors-business-deals?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US State Department has introduced performance metrics for American ambassadors in Africa to evaluate them based on the number of business deals they&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130462"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}