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On December 4, 2015, President Xi Jinping announced in a speech in Johannesburg that China would implement a network of satellite televisions across 10,000 African localities. The project, known as "Satellite TV Access for 10,000 African Villages" (the name did not require originality) was concluded in 2019 and, indeed, 10,000 African localities benefited from it. 10,112 localities, if we want to be exact. The initial idea of that project was to break the obvious digital divide that Africa has been suffering from, but it also aimed to break down the digital industry monopolies on the continent to "diversify" the programming that Africans have access to. Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Senegal, Democratic Republic of Congo and Cameroon were among the 25 countries that benefited from this measure. It is enough to visit these countries to find like flashes of lightning the signs announcing that this or that remote locality was the recipient of satellite television brought by Xi Jinping's China. A clearly disinterested measure, but one that opens the way to the complex framework designed by the Asian giant to gain a foothold in the African media. Although China's operations in Africa range from road construction (the documentary Empire of Dust, available on YouTube, is fundamental to understanding Sino-Congolese relations in this regard) to the construction of commercial ports of considerable size, as well as the mining of resources scattered throughout the territory, none of this would be possible without the "fifth column" that comes out of Beijing and that marches into the homes of a growing number of Africans: the media. Beijing's media deployment is constantly expanding and touches every aspect of communication: African news agencies distribute content sent...