{"id":11778,"date":"2018-08-17T02:24:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T02:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11778"},"modified":"2018-08-17T02:24:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T02:24:34","slug":"opinion-watch-out-trump-china-is-taking-africa-from-under-your-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11778","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Watch out Trump, China is taking Africa from under your nose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Look out Donald Trump, while you&#8217;re not watching, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy-defence\/article\/2156306\/xi-jinping-arrives-africa-visit-us-interest-continent\" target=\"_blank\">China is quietly stealing a continent from you<\/a>. And India may not be far behind.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Currently, the battle for supremacy on the African continent is being fought out between the leaders of Asia&#8217;s two superpowers &#8212; China and India &#8212; and, for the most part, the United States is nowhere to be seen.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi all but tripped over each other last month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/07\/23\/africa\/xi-jinping-paul-kagame-rwanda-intl\/index.html\">crisscrossing the continent on personal goodwill visits<\/a>. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Look out Donald Trump, while you&#8217;re not watching, China is quietly stealing a continent from you. And India may not be far behind.Currently, the battle for supremacy on the African continent is being fought out between the leaders of Asia&#8217;s two superpowers &#8212; China and India &#8212; and, for the most part, the United States&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}