Is China Trying to Destabilize North Africa?

China is increasingly penetrating North Africa and strengthening its ties with Algeria and Iran, two countries that are supporting, financing, and arming the polisario gang, said Gordon G. Chang in an opinion article issued by the “Newsweek”.
In his article entitled “Is Morocco China’s Next Target?”, Chang shed the light on the background of the Moroccan Sahara conflict, its history, and geopolitical impact on the region, as well as on the international sphere.
China is supplying arms to the area via Iran. If Beijing is successful in dividing Morocco, it may then go on to Libya and Tunisia in a quest to dominate all of North Africa, he said quoting Jonathan Bass, consultant at “InfraGlobal”.
Yet, if the so-called “SADR” becomes a state, it will not be sustainable, wrote the article, quoting Thomas Riley, America’s ambassador to Morocco from 2003 to 2009, “Morocco is stable and peaceful, but Algeria and the rest of the region are particularly troubled”.
Algeria, as a third party to the Sahara’s conflict, is pushing up the “self-determination” argument as a human rights base that it cannot promote on its own territories, he said, referring to Algeria-controlled Kabylia.
Superpowers are competing with each other to spread their influence in North Africa. Western-leaning Morocco is a natural partner of America, and Algeria is not said Riley.
There is little doubt that achieving the group’s goals would result in another geopolitical catastrophe at a time when the world order is already on the verge of collapse. The United States and the international community are interested in stability, so Morocco retains power, concluded Chang.