Chinese penetration in Africa has been one of the defining aspects of globalization for the past 20 years. This new relationship, expressed by the concept of ChinAfrica, is evolving profoundly. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted its contradictions. Chinese humanitarian diplomacy in Africa and its self-promotion efforts were wiped out by the wave of anti-African racism in China which provoked a unanimous and unprecedented protest against Beijing on the African continent. ChinAfrica has changed in nature.

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