Category: Media

By By Ara Eugenio, Jan Cuyco, Lucille Sodipe, Nattakorn Ploddee Violent confrontations between Chinese and Philippine vessels in the South China Sea are being manipulated online by disinformation networks for profit, posing risks to regional security, an AFP investigation has found. ...

A Chinese wholesale company in Nigeria sparked widespread controversy with its new ad that leverages the West African country's political dysfunction to promote its services. The ad opens with a news clip of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu telling viewers that he "feels ...

This article is co-authored by Yeta Purnama, a researcher at the Center of Economic and Law Studies (CELIOS), and Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat, Director of the China-Indonesia Desk at CELIOS. The China-Indonesia Media Forum that took place in Beijing in early September ...

China's new ambassador to Ghana, Tong Defa, urged local media to avoid simplistic reporting about the Chinese community and called on reporters to resist taking the actions of a few to represent all Chinese in the country. In a visit ...

Chinese authorities appear to have blocked all discussion online of the news that Brazil once again refused Beijing's invitation to join the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).  Since Chief Advisor to the President of Brazil, Celso Amorim, announced the decision last week, ...

By Emilie Beraud et Célia Lebur West African social media is abuzz with posts promoting a "brighter future" in partnership with non-Western powers, especially those belonging to the BRICS emerging economies meeting this week in Russia.

The escalating conflict between China and the Philippines over territorial disputes in the South China Sea splashed on the screens of tens of millions of homes across the United States on Sunday when it was the focus of a segment on the popular TV news magazine program ...

It's now routine for Kenyan President William Ruto to get the "us or them" question from Western journalists when he's in the U.S. or Europe. In May, CNN's Richard Quest bluntly asked the president point blank if he had to make ...

By Amanda Xinyi Chen On July 23, 2024, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began his visit to the United States, where he delivered a forceful address to the U.S. Congress to drum up American support for his country’s war in the Gaza Strip. ...

This weekend dashed any hopes that tensions between China and the Philippines over territorial disputes in the South China Sea would ease following an agreement reached last week. The deal, which concerned resupply missions to the ageing World War II-era warship ...

By Giorgia Facchini On May 19, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and five other passengers died in a helicopter crash. This unexpected event sent political shockwaves across Iran and the world as Raisi was not only one of the main architects ...

So much of the framing of Chinese engagement in Africa is done through the prism of Western media, academia, government, and civil society. Stories about debt traps, malign influence, and exploitation are all firmly embedded in the larger discourse about Africa's ...