This has erupted into an important story on conservative, neo-con and Russiagate Twitter, as they've found common cause. Story is fake news from African papers. Nat sec propaganda moved on from Middle East to China, there's too much there to even shoot it all down. 
Don't blame people for getting caught up in this, most can't investigate everything. So you should start with prior that the same people who were lying about Russiagate and GWOTr are lying about China, and propagandizing to make everyone "independently" arrive at same conclusions
I don't do a thorough independent fact check for every tweet. At least, if I see a story from an unfamiliar news source, I will do 5 secs of googling before sharing. Check out how many people don't meet that standard, blue checks across political spectrum.
https://twitter.com/TanzaniaUpdates/status/1464152041757069321
More great minds at work. They're so well informed about China "taking over Africa." They've seen it again and again, open your eyes! Look at all this conquering. Note the story isn't even a "take over," it's just enforcing a contract, not like US going around killing leaders.
Even the original stories "reporting" this don't say what the headline says. People only read the headlines they like, not even the articles. But everyone now is getting their geopolitical analysis based on headline choices in African papers they just heard of 5 mins ago.
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