Rwanda’s delegation to the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)’s Global Green Growth Week in Jeju, South Korea in September 2016, led
by Rwanda’s Ambassador to South Korea, Emma Francoise Isumbingabo. During Global Green Growth Week, Rwanda shared its climate resilience
efforts with the world and built new partnerships for its green growth plans, including the green city pilot project. Photo credit: Flickr/
Rwanda Green Fund.
Introduction
Technological competition between the United States and China poses a special dilemma for African nations, whose prosperity depends on doing business with both Beijing and Washington. Although President Joe Biden is expected to assume a softer policy stance toward China one couched in the language of human rights and liberal values, rather than power and strategic capabilities competition will persist, driven by Beijing’s ambition to control the key technologies of the future.