US counters China as Beijing’s ‘shock wave’ hits African economies

A top State Department official has hit out at China for what analysts are calling ‘the China shock wave’ effect now crippling African economies.

African manufacturing is reportedly being battered by a surge of Chinese imports.

It’s a triple whammy — China takes raw materials, including critical minerals, from the continent and floods Africa with state-subsidized products.

And Beijing isn’t importing anywhere near an equal amount of African products.

The China Global South Project reported that in 2025, Chinese exports to Africa hit $225 billion in value, whereas imports from Africa were roughly only half that — $123 billion.

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"China continues to flood Africa with exports," Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Frank Garcia, told Fox News Digital.

He added, "No country is immune to the negative impacts of China’s unfair trade practices and state-subsidized overcapacity.

China’s economic engagement with African countries has often led to unsustainable debt, economic coercion and an oversupply of Chinese imports threatening to displace and preventing the development of local industries." He continued, "The U.S. government aims to offer credible alternatives that leverage public and private financing in priority areas that make America safer, stronger and more prosperous.

The United States is committed to maintaining the strong, open investment environment that benefits our economy and our people, while enhancing our ability to protect our nation from new and evolving threats that can accompany foreign investment." Elaine Dezenski, senior director and head of the Center on Economic and Financial Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) told Fox News Digital China is the number one trading partner for many African countries, but warned" that doesn’t mean that African countries are moving up the value chain.

On the contrary, some African countries are increasingly tied into a cycle of mineral and other natural resource exports to China, only to be on the receiving end of finished goods, also from China." WHITE HOUSE EXPOSES ‘TRANSSHIPMENT SCAM’ COSTING US UP TO $26B, POINTS FINGER AT CHINA Dezenski added, "Africa wants to manufacture.

Chinese exports are getting in the way.

Key exports from China are substituting for specific products that could be manufactured in Africa.

As China is increasingly shut out of U.S.