Chinese Ambassador Guo Shaochun paid a visit on Wednesday to President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the State House in Harare. Because Zimbabwe is still largely isolated from the United States and Europe, China plays an outsized role in its foreign policy and is a key source of international aid and investment.

Tweets like this highlight how successful China’s been in managing relations with Africa’s governing elites even as Beijing’s popularity among broad swathes of African civil society is challenged by perceptions of anti-Black discrimination, “debt traps” and persistent reports of Chinese nationals behaving badly in various African countries.