Trump Administration’s ‘America First’ Foreign Policy Harms U.S. Influence In Africa, Bill Gates Says In Bloomberg Interview

Bloomberg: Bill Gates Says ‘America First’ Endangers U.S. Influence in Africa
“Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft Corp. and the second-richest person in the world, said there’s a danger that U.S. President Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ approach could damage the U.S.’s influence in Africa in the long term. Other countries like China are continuing to push into the African continent, and the U.S. should not pull back, Gates said in an interview with Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait in Davos, Switzerland…” (De Vynck/Mawad, 1/24).

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