{"id":155146,"date":"2026-07-25T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155146"},"modified":"2026-07-25T11:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T11:00:08","slug":"how-china-is-using-film-diplomacy-to-project-a-better-image-across-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155146","title":{"rendered":"How China is using film diplomacy to project a better image across Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostBeijing\u2019s soft power drive to win African hearts through cinema was on display recently in Bujumbura, where Chinese dragon and lion dances merged with sacred Burundian drums to open Chinese Film Week.<br \/>\nThe Chinese embassy in Bujumbura, the economic capital of Burundi, said the July 15 event offered \u201ca beautiful example of cultural exchanges between the two countries\u201d and that both sides were determined to \u201cmake cinema a vehicle for Sino-Burundian friendship\u201d.<br \/>\nZhu Kewei, China\u2019s ambassador to the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3361763\/how-china-using-film-diplomacy-project-better-image-across-africa?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 PostBeijing\u2019s soft power drive to win African hearts through cinema was on display recently in Bujumbura, where Chinese dragon and lion dances merged with&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\/155146"}],"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=155146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}