The strategic autonomy of African countries is the starting point for understanding their pursuit of an autonomous development path. The great-power game is placing greater demands on African ownership. African countries' autonomy is mainly manifested in economic self-improvement, security governance and balanced diplomacy. In the United Nations General Assembly, African countries are able to maintain a certain degree of autonomy and independence in political, economic and security issues according to their own interests and merits. The reason for this is that there are certain limitations in the assistance of big powers; the types of issues and the pressure from the United States have also acted as catalysts; and the competition between the big powers of China and the United States has to a certain extent given free space to African countries. In the future, in China-Africa cooperation, China needs to respect and support the autonomy of African countries in their construction, build a community of human destiny with African countries, continuously strengthen cooperation and interoperability with countries of the South, lead in development, and strive to build a new international political and economic order.

Yan Lin, Zijing Wu. Autonomy of African Countries in International Affairs—Based on the Consistency of the Vote between China, the United States and Africa in the General Assembly. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2024), Vol. 6, Issue 10: 37-47. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2024.061006.

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