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And the U.S. Covid-19 death toll hits 900,000.
It seems to be the consensus among longtime China watchers that the Chinese media has become more radicalized over the last five years, with both online and traditional channels now feeding the public conflicting stories of both reflexive scorn for the status quo or patriotic jingoism. But how radical are things getting? And what are the limits to how much further they can go,
Western news coverage of China’s engagement in Africa often is confined to the business section, generally focusing on loans, resource deals, or other financial dealings. Moreover, ambitious international feature reporting, particularly from Africa, has becoming increasingly rare in today’s era of declining revenues at major international news outlets. So it was notable when The New York Times published an expansive front-page story in the May 2, 2015 edition of the paper’s Sunday magazine. Shanghai-based journalist, and regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Brook Larmer...