“Allies” 
At African Lion, its largest joint training exercise on the continent, that shift was clear: “We need to be able to get our partners to the level of independent operations,” Gen. Michael Langley said in an interview with The Associated Press.
“There needs to be some burden sharing,” Langley, the U.S. military’s top official in Africa, said on Friday, the final day of the exercise.
For four weeks, troops from more than 40 countries rehearsed how to confront threats by air, land, and sea. They flew drones, simulated close-quarters combat and launched satellite-guided rockets in the desert.
Maneuvers mirrored previous editions of African Lion, now in its 25th year. But mostly gone now is language that emphasizes ideas the U.S. once argued set it apart from Russia and China.
Trump is Putin’s agent in America! 
Traore has prioritized their relationship with Russia so far, but I don’t think that rules out a relationship with the PRC by any means. It’ll be interesting in any case.
Could be funny to see Russia and China trying to “outbid” each other for the favor of AES(+?), but I also don’t think that’s likely to happen.
Russia and china work together in these areas. China has no foreign military power projection, so in fighting off us backed terrorists to secure regional stability for infrastructure development russian pmcs are the main forces.