China’s Brilliant Propaganda–The 21st Century Equivalent of The Big Lie

Wei Lingling of the Wall Street Journal (and a former OPC Foundation scholarship winner) and I have been wondering about the same thing–China’s incredibly brazen use of propaganda. Here’s her take: https://wsjchina.cmail19.com/t/d-e-ejdjrjk-driitdljhj-r/ I was particularly struck by this line of argumentation from China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi. “Should China and the United States keep to […]…

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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…” […]…

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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 […]…

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