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China Paid For a Second Article in South African Media to Promote Vaccine Agenda

by Eric Olander

Quick update on a story that we brought you last week about China’s use of paid content marketing to promote the use of its vaccines in South Africa. A second article has now been published in the “Partnered Content” section of the online news portal IOL that, incidentally, is 20% owned by the Chinese government.

Although the bylines of both articles are different, one by Liam Lee and the other by Guan Jintai, it turns out that they’re both written by the same person, Liam Lee. It turns out “Guan Jintai” is a pseudonym.

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