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Chinese Embassy in Zimbabwe Hits Back at Press Criticism of Chinese Firms
The Chinese embassy in Zimbabwe renewed its critique of local and Western media’s ‘slander’ against Chinese companies in the country in a lengthy post published Wednesday on its website. Under the headline "False News and Truth," it listed examples of what it called "irresponsible" reporting ...
New Articles Promote “Chinese Democracy” to African Readers
Two new articles promoting the idea that the Chinese system represents an alternative form of democracy from that promoted by Western countries have appeared in the South African and Nigerian press this week. While they were apparently written by African journalists, they follow Chinese state talking points ...
How China Uses Media to Try and Influence Foreign Audiences
Readers of African newspapers may have spotted articles that seemingly come off as a little too effusive about China. A fascinating new article by the China Media Project at the University of Hong Kong reveals why that may be the case and how Chinese authorities ...
Kenya’s Artisans Decry Chinese Imports
Artisanal craftspeople in Kenya are complaining that they’re being edged out by cheap Chinese imports. The national broadcaster KTN’s report comes as Kenya tries to deal with its massive Chinese trade imbalance. Trade numbers show the country imported about $4 billion worth of goods from ...
South Africa’s SABC Tackles DRC-China Relations
While African broadcasters frequently cover Africa-China relations on talk shows, it’s rare to see African reporters covering the issue on location in other African countries. So it was notable to see South Africa’s state broadcaster, SABC News, produce a report from ...
An Update on China-Kenya Ties With Journalist Eliud Kibii
China's ambassador to Kenya Zhou Pingjian sat down with a local reporter Eliud Kibii from The Star newspaper earlier this month for a rare one-on-one interview. Chinese diplomats tend to be quite media shy so it's news whenever ...
How Will Ukraine Affect China’s Global Role? Arab Columnists Weigh In
The conflict in Ukraine is causing a flurry of analysis in the Arabic-language media, and a lot of this writing also focuses on how the conflict is affecting China’s global role. One of the dominant themes is that the Ukraine crisis ...
What Did Chinese Community Leaders in Africa Think of the Two Sessions Meeting in Beijing?
Since last Friday, Chinese news has carried wall-to-wall coverage of the Two Sessions "parliamentary pageant" in Beijing. Not surprisingly, it's been followed by Chinese expats across Africa. The Two Sessions meetings provide a rare glimpse into the ...
Bienvenue à Le Projet Afrique Chine en français
The China-Africa discourse today is richer and far more nuanced than it was in 2010 when Cobus and I launched CAP. But there's still a long way to go, as shown by the stubborn simplistic narratives that keep framing the relationship in terms of debt traps and ...
Public Editor of Uganda’s Daily Monitor Newspaper Acknowledges Errors in Entebbe Airport Coverage
Uganda’s Daily Monitor newspaper has for the first time acknowledged some wrongdoing in a November report that sowed panic about China seizing Entebbe International Airport. Odoobo C. Bichachi, the Nation Media Group’s Uganda Public Editor, admitted in an op-ed on Friday that the article was misleading. ...
China Exim Bank’s Controversial Loan to Expand Uganda’s Entebbe Airport
New research from AidData at the College of William & Mary in the United States provides the first insight into the loan contract between China Exim Bank and the Ugandan government for the expansion of the Entebbe International Airport. ...
Entebbe Airport Clarification Draws Lackluster Media Response
Last December, the Daily Monitor in Uganda unleashed a firestorm with an article claiming that the Entebbe International Airport was in danger of being seized as collateral for an unpaid Chinese loan. The story was poorly-sourced and ill-informed (for example, the loan in question wasn’t out of its ...