Some African countries have long sent their generals and high-ranking politicians to China for training at relevant military academies, and even when the second civil war broke out in Sudan, both commanders and generals came from Chinese military academies. China has a certain influence in Africa.
According to an article published today by the Chinese WeChat public website, “Bu Xiang He Institute,” most of the political and defense generals of some African countries were trained in Shijiazhuang, including the Tanzanian chief of staff, and boasted that the Tanzanian army was trained by Shijiazhuang, saying that the country had sent its personnel to China for training in the 1970s. The Tanzanian army is also known as the “East African Liberation Army”, and the army’s main combat vehicle is the Type 59 combat vehicle, and the air force’s main force is the J-7 fighter jet.
In addition, the second Sudanese civil war broke out in 1983-2005, resulting in the death of at least 1.9 million South Sudanese and the displacement of nearly 4 million people. The top commanders of the North Sudanese army and the South Sudanese army at that Time were graduates of the Shijiazhuang Army Command College (which has been incorporated into the National Defense University of China). In such a bitter civil war, the article compared it to “a campus fight between the National Defense University and Shijiazhuang Military Academy” and said that “some people suggested that instructors from both sides should be asked to stop it.
In addition to the military strategy, some African presidents have also trained in China, including Isaias Afwerki, the long-ruling president of Eritrea, who went to China to study at the Nanjing Army Command College in 1967. The former President of Ethiopia, Mulatu Teshome, attended China’s Beijing Language and Culture University and Peking University in 1976.
In addition to Afwerki, four other African heads of state have trained at China’s Nanjing Army Command College, including former Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, founding President Sam Nujoma of the Republic of Namibia, and former President Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Joseph Kabila, former President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Joao Bernardo Vieira, former President of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, among others, making China’s long-term influence in Africa not to be underestimated.
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