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A US State Department report that accuses the Chinese government of expanding disinformation efforts is “in itself disinformation,” Beijing’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed Saturday.

A US State Department report that accuses the Chinese government of expanding disinformation efforts is “in itself disinformation,” Beijing’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed Saturday.

The ministry shot back after the State Department issued a striking report this week in which it accused the Chinese government of expanding efforts to control information and to disseminate propaganda and disinformation that promotes “digital authoritarianism” in China and around the world.

The US report, issued by the Global Engagement Center on Thursday, alleged that China spends billions of dollars a year on foreign information manipulation and warned that Chinese leader Xi Jinping had “significantly expanded” efforts to “shape the global information environment.”

It also underlined US concerns about China as a main military competitor and key rival in the battle over ideas and global disinformation.

  • RedAggroBest@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    1 year ago

    That's the worst take yet.

    Claiming NATO actions at the height of the cold war were aggression towards the modern Russian state is ridiculous.

    nuclear missiles in Turkey to provoke the Cuban missile crisis

    Except that was before disarmament? Which the US and USSR (and now Russia and many others) signed on to. Trying to say that 50yo actions taken at the height of the cold war justify Russia's modern actions is outright horseshit.

    • goldenlocks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      113·
      1 year ago

      Trying to say that 50yo actions taken at the height of the cold war justify Russia’s modern actions is outright horseshit.

      Not what I said. I'm saying Russians remember feeling threatened by the combined force of NATO and Ukraine trying to join provoked the invasion.