Chinese premier Li Keqiang just finished a four-country African tour on Sunday, so leave it to Global Times to summarize the trip in an unreadable “op-ed” featuring economic stats and sentences such as, “Such a robust momentum of development calls for higher standards in a myriad of cooperation projects.” At least the illustration — by Liu Rui — was, um, eye-catching. GT even tweeted it.

Li was quoted by Xinhua as saying, “I wish to assure our African friends in all seriousness that China will never pursue a colonialist path like some countries did, or allow colonialism, which belongs to the past, to reappear in Africa.” Looking at that picture, straight from the quill of a well-meaning but cloistered and ultimately clueless 19th century liberal, it seems like maybe Global Times missed the memo.