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Paul Kagame: “I Don’t Think China Has Forced Any Country in Africa To Take Their Money”

by Eric Olander
Rwandan President Paul Kagame speaking with former U.S. National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster for a Hoover Institution online discussion.

President Paul Kagame joined former U.S. National Security Advisor for what has become a trademark for the Rwandan leader to be brutally frank with U.S. and European interlocutors about sensitive political issues in Africa, including China’s presence on the continent.

President Kagame spoke with McMaster for a video series hosted by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. China came up as the next to last question in the hour-long conversation between the two former military leaders turned politicians. 

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