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Be Wary of All Those “Hyperbolic” Reports Warning of the Dangers of Chinese Technology

by Eric Olander

The fear that China is going to export digital authoritarianism and repression to Africa is way overblown and oversimplified in Western media reports and think tank analysis cautions Iginio Gagliardone, a media scholar at Wits University in Johannesburg and one of the world’s foremost scholars on Chinese technological influence in Africa.

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