Late last month in Nairobi, Li Xuhang, China’s ambassador to Kenya, threatened a trade war with the East African nation. This came after a call from Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta to halt imports of Chinese tilapia, which he believed were flooding the market and harming the local fishing industry. The Chinese government responded angrily, saying it would impose its own sanctions on Kenya. It also warned that it could pull phase-two funding of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), which will link Nairobi with Mombasa, Kenya’s main Indian Ocean port. The SGR has been financed by the People’s Republic and, at an estimated cost of $3.2 billion, is the most expensive post-independence infrastructure project in Kenya.
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