China: Exploiting Africa

China is undercutting its largely successful efforts to cultivate African allies through movies and television shows that reflect racial superiority and cultural insensitivity. For instance, a gala show on state television included a skit that involved an Asian woman in blackface and oversized butt pads and an African actor in a monkey suit. A 2016 advertisement for a laundry product showed a black man being shoved into a washing machine, only to emerge as a boyish-looking Asian man—with skin of a much lighter hue.