Trump’s complete factor with China was that he needed to compete with them economically. That’s what he ran on and I imagine it’s what he truly needed.
Then he went forward and surrounded himself with lunatics like John Bolton and Mike Pompeo who needed a warfare with the Chinese language, to push for some form of regime change.
That complete psycho US-backed shade revolution Hong Kong riot factor occurred underneath Trump’s watch, and was completely orchestrated by Pompeo. Trump by no means actually even commented on it. He by no means went on the market like a faggot and began speaking about how Hong Kong ought to be unbiased as a result of they love taking it up the ass and that’s a human proper. However he additionally by no means tried to drag again Pompeo from massively escalating tensions with a peer competitor in an unhinged, bizarre method.
I’m not stunned by this newest report.
I don’t know why it was leaked, nevertheless it’s in all probability to help Trump as somebody who’s “powerful on China.”
RT:
Former US President Donald Trump licensed a secret CIA affect marketing campaign aimed toward smearing the Chinese language authorities and turning public opinion towards its leaders, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing ex-officials with data of the operation.In response to the report, the CIA shaped a workforce of operatives in 2019 who used pretend web identities to unfold “unfavourable narratives” about President Xi Jinping’s authorities and leak “disparaging intelligence” to international information shops.
Among the many narratives unfold by the CIA on Chinese language social media platforms had been allegations that members of the ruling Communist Get together had been hiding cash abroad. The Belt and Street Initiative, China’s world infrastructure improvement technique, was additionally framed as “corrupt and wasteful.”
Think about the US authorities having the nerve to border something some other authorities does as “corrupt and wasteful.”
The US officers who spoke to Reuters mentioned the hassle by the Trump administration was meant to “foment paranoia amongst high leaders” and pressure the federal government in Beijing to expend assets chasing up intrusions into its web area.“We needed them chasing ghosts,” one former official mentioned. The sources described the operation as an American response to “years of aggressive covert efforts by China aimed toward growing its world affect.”
A CIA spokesperson contacted by Reuters declined to touch upon the existence of this system.
A spokesperson for China’s Ministry of International Affairs instructed the outlet that the revelation proved that Washington makes use of public platforms “as weapons to unfold false info and manipulate worldwide public opinion.”
Sure, they do.
And the opposite factor they do: they ban anybody who disagrees with them from these platforms.
Perhaps there could be an argument for not censoring American social media in China if it was free speech, and the Chinese language may defend themselves. However what these individuals do is come into your nation, take over your whole web infrastructure, spam you with disinformation after which ban you from responding to it. In your individual nation.
They simply dump sludge on you.
No nation ought to enable American media, in any respect. There isn’t any cause to. Even a free speech absolutist would have a tough time making the argument, on condition that these social media websites are such a one-way avenue. Nobody can defend themselves.
With China, I think about this system was extra aimed toward China’s allies than China itself. Chinese language web is fairly properly locked down. They don’t enable these shenanigans. However in Southeast Asia and with different Chinese language allies, the populations learn Fb and simply get inundated with pretend information about China, nonstop. It’s a large CIA program. They go as far as to make pretend information segments within the native languages, made to resemble actual native information, and invent crimes the Chinese language are committing. It’s heinous.
In Bali, some hooker will say “did you hear the Chinese language are kidnapping Bali individuals to allow them to eat them?”
That’s not even instance. You hear even weirder shit than that. It’s simply nonstop. Nearly all of any random SEA particular person’s Fb feed is anti-Chinese language propaganda, combined with the conventional shade revolution stuff. These international locations are ridiculous for not at the least banning the principle American social media platforms.
AI is little question making this all loads worse, as a result of it will probably simply be instructed “make up a bunch of psycho shit concerning the Chinese language and spam it on the Fb feeds of the populations of their allies.”
