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BBC Apologizes to Professor Deborah Brautigam For Misrepresenting Her Views on “Debt Trap Diplomacy”

by Eric Olander

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) apologized to Professor Deborah Brautigam, director of the China-Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University, for editing an interview she did with the network last week in such a way that it sounded like she was a proponent of the very theory she’s spent years debunking.

The BBC blamed an editing error by an inexperienced producer but does not appear to have published a correction on either the show page or elsewhere on its site.

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