It’s a useful exercise to parse the language in an article in today’s New York Times regarding Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s latest visit to China. See it here. It says Blinken will “try to preserve the recent and delicate stabilization of ties between the United States and China.” It says that Blinken’s visit last […]…
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China is becoming increasingly sophisticated in its efforts to undermine the American election
This is not some fringe theory. This is in the august pages of the New York Times. Its lead sentence pretty much says it all: “Covert Chinese accounts are masquerading online as American supporters of former President Donald J. Trump, promoting conspiracy theories, stoking domestic divisions and attacking President Biden ahead of the election in November…” […]…
Tony, the Chinese already are interfering in America’s domestic politics
Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave a noble speech in Seoul yesterday warning that a “flood” of disinformation was threatening the world’s democracies, fueled in part by the rise of Artificial Intelligence. The New York Times speculates that he is most worried about the U.S. elections in November. But the war over the integrity of […]…
TikTok is proving that China interferes in domestic U.S. politics
The fact that TikTok launched a massive blitz among its 170 million American users to halt enactment of legislation emerging from the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party is proof that China has no qualms about seeking to influence American decision-making. TikTok actively misled its users by saying the legislation would prevent them […]…
