China's ambassador to the United States Qin Gang on Monday rejected charges that Beijing had mired African countries in debt during a forum ahead of a U.S.-Africa summit, citing a report that African countries owe three times more debt to Western institutions.
U.S. President Joe Biden is set to host dozens of African leaders for a summit this week in Washington, D.C., to discuss pressing challenges from food security to climate change for the first time since the Obama administration held one in 2014.
"China is not the biggest creditor of African debts," Qin said. "The debt owned by China is only a small amount." Biden's foreign policy has emphasized promoting Western countries as a counterweight to China, the United States' top geopolitical competitor, but U.S. officials have suggested they are not asking African partners to choose between Washington and Beijing
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