Beijing’s Top Diplomat For Africa Reflects on Why It’s So Difficult for China to Change the Negative Media Narrative

China needs to overcome the language barrier and do a better job of its story in Africa, said Beijing’s top diplomat for the continent in a keynote address last week at the World Internet Conference in the Zhejiang city of Wuzhen. “One of our biggest difficulties in international communication is language,” he told attendees at the conference. “Because we now live in the age of social media, if China can’t tell stories in other peoples’ languages then they’ll just reach a smaller audience.”

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