The White House of the United States will host the US-Africa Leaders Summit on Tuesday (December 13, 2022). Safe policy guidelines.

Both the White House and the State Department have said China has nothing to do with hosting the U.S.-African leaders' summit, but Beijing accuses Washington of calling the African leaders for self-interest, including forcing countries in the region to choose sides between the U.S. and China.

"From the American point of view, this is not about competing with other countries and asking our friends and partners to choose sides," Secretary of State Blinken said Tuesday at an event attended by some African heads of state. This summit is to provide African countries with a real option, a real partnership. We hope that everyone will work together to move towards high standards, not the other way around."

Earlier, the White House spokesperson also said that the summit was held for Africans and had nothing to do with China.

On Monday, National Security Advisor Sullivan announced that the United States would pledge $55 billion to Africa over the next three years in a show of commitment to the continent. Responding to a question from VOA, he stressed that the money was not made conditional on African countries having to condemn Russia's aggression in Ukraine.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin quoted a report published by an African academic institution at a regular press conference on Tuesday, saying, "The US government's policy toward Africa has always served its own interests, and its core appeal is to make African countries compete in international security, international architecture, and major power competition." Pick a side."

He also said, "The US-Africa summit is about to be held. We are happy to see that all parties in the international community pay more attention to Africa, but we firmly oppose using Africa as an arena for great powers to play games, and using the strategy toward Africa as a means to contain and attack other countries' cooperation with Africa." Tool of."