With French influence being expelled from countries such as Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, Paris is desperately searching for a new strategic foothold in Africa.

The move has attracted protests from thousands of government employees, political parties, and international organizations, calling it a violation of basic rights and the country’s international obligations.

A spokesperson for the foreign ministry said that China’s position on the two countries is “consistent” and will not change.

As Trump arrives in Beijing this week, no deal signed at the Great Hall will hide the expanding foreign military infrastructure across Asia and Washington’s New Cold War.

Organizers, activists, intellectuals, and international delegates were arrested in Nairobi during an anti-imperialist protest against the France–Africa Summit, which critics have described as an attempt at imperialist repositioning in East Africa.

The government’s latest offensive came after the release of a documentary co-produced by PBS that allegedly exposes the deals Bukele is said to have struck with El Salvador’s most powerful gangs.

In addition to the economic crisis Argentina is facing, a series of corruption allegations has caused the Argentine president’s popularity to plummet to one of its lowest levels since he took office.