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Wow! Whoever’s in Charge of the Chinese Embassy in Somalia’s Twitter Account Really Went on a Tear

In the space of two hours yesterday, the social media manager at the Chinese embassy in Somalia published an impressive 32 tweets in what was a disjointed stream of Chinese propaganda’s greatest hits.

They covered a lot of ground:
Alleviating Chinese poverty at home | Alleviating Chinese poverty abroad | Chinese agricultural development in Africa | China, the engine of world economic growth | Making a Chinese C19 vaccine available | China joining COVAX | How everyone is happy in Xinjiang | How China’s ethnic minorities have “all their needs attended to” | Sustainable infrastructure development 

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