Prime Minister Keir Starmer's visit to China will prompt intense debate about the extent to which Beijing is a political threat as well as an economic rival – and whether the UK is using the tools it has to counter China’s growing power around the world.
One area where the answer is a resounding “no” is the one I study: the use of media as a soft power device to resist China’s success in spreading its critical narratives about the West across Africa, the fastest-growing continent where one in four of the world’s population will live by 2050.
