The Southern African Bi-Oceanic Railway Could Be A Game-Changer In The Sino-US New Cold War

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The Southern African Bi-Oceanic Railway Could Be A Game-Changer In The Sino-US New Cold War Authored by Andrew Korybko via Andrew Korybko's Newsletter,All of Southern Africa will…

All of Southern Africa will likely fall under the US' "sphere of influence" and become the minerals base of the US-led "Global West's" "Fourth Industrial Revolution"-driven economic competition with China.

The run-up to the US' latest midterms dominated the global news cycle, which is why casual observers probably missed the announcement in late October that Angola and Tanzania agreed to pioneer a bi-oceanic railway across Southern Africa. The former's Benguela Railway, which the US now considers to be part of what it calls the Lobito Corridor, will link with the latter's 1970s Chinese-built Tanzania-Zambia Railway (TAZARA) in Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to fulfill this vision.

While regional economic integration is always positive, and this move can help bring more prosperity to those four's largely impoverished people if properly managed, the most significant outcome is that it'll probably further entrench the US' geopolitical influence. Its sway over Angola, the DRC, and Zambia has grown in recent years, the last of which finally signing a long-debated and contentious health deal with the US last month, and ties with Tanzania are on the mend after being strained for the past year.

Trump 2.0 is implementing the "Strategy of Denial", which aims to deny China access to the resources and markets required for maintaining its superpower trajectory. In the Southern African context, the US wants to dislodge China from its dominant position the DRC's mineral industry, which consists of some like coltan and cobalt that are indispensable to the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" (4IR). The same goes for China's position in the DRC's copper industry in particular and neighboring landlocked Zambia's too.

The goal is to greatly reduce China's control over these resources as part of the US' "decoupling" policy that it'll then demand that its partners follow.

The disproportionate role of Southern Africa's minerals industry (which includes the DRC's) in the 4IR…

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