{"id":149530,"date":"2026-04-12T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149530"},"modified":"2026-04-12T10:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T10:00:13","slug":"war-of-words-china-and-the-us-battle-it-out-for-the-loyalty-of-african-hearts-and-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149530","title":{"rendered":"War of words: China and the US battle it out for the loyalty of African hearts and minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe world\u2019s two superpowers are waging an information war to influence the minds of Africa\u2019s young and media-savvy demographic, with articles pitched by the United States and China designed to show each other in an unflattering light.<br \/>\nOn March 31, Africa Defence Forum magazine, a publication of the US Army\u2019s Africa Command, ran an article called: \u201cChina\u2019s floating fish factories plunder Guinea Bissau\u2019s resources\u201d.<br \/>\nIt detailed illegal operations by Chinese fishing trawlers in the West African&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3349789\/war-words-china-and-us-battle-it-out-loyalty-african-hearts-and-minds?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe world\u2019s two superpowers are waging an information war to influence the minds of Africa\u2019s young and media-savvy demographic, with articles pitched by the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149530"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}