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For Some Weird Reason, CGTN Doesn’t Want to Say Huawei by Name in a Report About the Company in Kenya

For some reason, the Chinese state broadcaster CGTN went out of its way to avoid naming Huawei by name in a recent report about the company’s role as the primary technology service provider for Safaricom’s popular mobile payment service M-Pesa.

This is odd, given that Chinese propaganda has unabashedly promoted Huawei in Africa and other developing regions in response to U.S. pressure on the company.

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