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Chinese State Media Strident on Summit

by Cobus van Staden
Editorial cartoon published by the Chinese Communist Party-run nationalist tabloid Global Times. Image via Global Times.

While the Chinese public seems disinterested in the U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit, China’s state media is rolling out the invective. 

The state-owned nationalist tabloid Global Times published two highly negative articles dismissing the summit. In a front-page op-ed, it wrote: 

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