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Global Times Isn’t Happy With the FT’s Report on Chinese Lending in Africa

by Eric Olander

This week’s Financial Times story by Africa Editor David Pilling and Greater China Correspondent Kathrin Hille on the slowdown in Chinese infrastructure lending in Africa provoked a largely favorable response among international audiences but almost no reaction from Chinese stakeholders… until today.

Not surprisingly, the reactionary nationalist tabloid Global Times was not happy at all with Pilling and Hille’s framing of the story and summarily dismissed the report as “more like an opinion piece than a news article.”

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