American attitude in this diplomatic round was basically ''Do as we say or we will crash your economy, coup you and install a more pliable puppet, oh and legalize butt-sex and trans kids while you are at it''. This way State Department is keeping Russia contained, but is losing badly against China, which is expanding into Africa for the last twenty years, with plenty of carrots for the local elites, without virtue signaling of the day preconditions like gay rights, trans rights...
And yeah I'm sure local elites are absolutely overjoyed at the fact that American market is open to their raw materials, the ones that China is buying as well. This not a fee market competition there, but a fight between State Department aligned corporations and CCP aligned corporations about who gets to exploit local resources.