How Effective are China’s Press Junkets for African Journalists? Pretty Effective.

Mohamed Osman Abdi is a journalist based in Mogadishu.

As China opens back up after the pandemic, journalists are again being flown in from across the Global South for junkets – a key form of influence-building for Beijing. 

If you wondered whether these tours pay off in soft power, tweets like these from the Somali journalist Mohamed Osman Abdi provide a glimpse of China’s influence-building across Africa and Latin America in action…

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