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.

  • Spzi@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Ask NATO, they’re the aggressors that provoked this conflict. They expanded around Russia

    The difference between NATO expansion and Russia’s expansion:

    NATO expands by having democracies decide to join. Note for this to happen, the countries in question must want to join. If you insist, you can blame NATO for accepting these applications.

    Russia expands by rolling in with tanks, killing people and committing war crimes. Exactly the reason why all those countries want to join NATO, to have some protection from that bully.

    But sure, the defensive alliance is the actual aggressor, not the country starting invasions. /s

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        1 year ago

        Yes, “all practical civilian and military cooperation between NATO and Russia” was suspended by NATO on 1 April 2014, in response to Russia annexing Crimea, which also broke the Budapest Memorandum.

        No country has the right to join an alliance with other countries. You can ask, they can reject.

        Try to include arguments instead of personal attacks, if you can.

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          1 year ago

          This was over 20 years ago when Putin became president of Russia. Also the Soviets applied in 1954 as well.

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            1 year ago

            Ok, so what does this mean? Is the idea NATO should accept all countries who apply? Should not reject applications?

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              I believe it means that NATO’s goal is to balkanize Russia, not to protect Europe from them but to exploit their natural resources. Currently all the oil in Russia belongs to a state owned company so the west does not like that.