Effy Zhang, a Beijing-based global affairs reporter for the privately-run financial news outlet Caixin, joins Eric and Cobus to talk about how she covers China-Africa issues for her readers in China, and about how Chinese news coverage and African and international reports are often starkly different from one another, even when discussing the same issues. With Chinese and African news consumers reading vastly different perspectives, what can be done to narrow the divide?
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